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I thus find myself unable to stay silent or keep an official decoration from a government that is this callous to human suffering

— Zukiswa Wanner

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“How do you forgive someone who hasn't apologized? How do you forgive someone who hasn't acknowledged wrongdoing?”

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What does being an artist mean if one can't hold a mirror to society and critique and also applaud it

I wish that the German government, in reflection and saying 'never again' would acknowledge that never again should be for anybody

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