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I repeat that we all stand before history. I and my colleagues are not the only ones on trial. Shell is here on trial... The Company has indeed ducked this particular trial, but its day will surely come."

— Ken Saro-Wiwa Trial Speech (1995)

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If we had a proper system, they would find that there is not so much oil money around anyway.

I'll tell you this, I may be dead but my ideas will not die.

My lord, we all stand before history. I am a man of peace, of ideas... I have devoted my intellectual and material resources, my very life, to a cause in which I have total belief.

Trial Speech (1995)

The proceedings leave no doubt that the judgment has been written in advance. And a sentence of death against which there is no appeal is a certainty... Lord take my soul, but the struggle continues.

The writer cannot be a mere storyteller; he cannot be a mere teacher; he cannot merely X-ray society's weaknesses, its ills, its perils. He or she must be actively involved shaping its present and its future.

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