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Afghanistan is the land of Pashtuns. It always has been, always will be. We are the true Afghans, the pure Afghans, not this Flat-Nose here. His people pollute our homeland, our watan. They dirty our blood.

— Khaled Hosseini The Kite Runner (2003)

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A boy who won't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up to anything.

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A man who who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.

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It always falls on the sober to pay for the sins of the drunk.

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Every Afghan story is marked by death and loss and unimaginable grief. And yet, she sees, people find a way to survive, to go on.

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