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Outspoken: My Fight for Freedom and Human Rights in Afghanistan

Book by Sima Samar · 5 quotes · Afghanistan, Poverty, Hope

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“And he dreaded prison more than anything, not because survival in the gourbis was any better, but because nothing would be more humiliating than being labeled a criminal. He had inherited a sense of honour that gave him – he, the poorest of the poor – the pride of a blind man and the humility of a prince.”

“The suffering was over; the killing and bloodshed had stopped. Mind you, the poverty—even there, in the richest neighborhood of Kabul—was shocking: the children barefoot, their wounds and scars evidence of deprivation and the brutal past. But while their faces showed their malnourishment, their eyes glimmered with hope for a better future”