Ayaan Hirsi Ali Quotes About Country
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They decided to let immigrants in and I am an immigrant. They gave us a chance to participate in this country's life and I took it.
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I lived in countries that had no democracy... so I don't find myself in the same luxury as you do. You grew up in freedom, and you can spit on freedom because you don't know what it is not to have freedom.
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I don't have much in me left for Somalia, because the country is so broken, it's not realistic to daydream about it.
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I cannot emphasize enough how wrongheaded this is. Withholding criticism and ignoring differences are racism in its purest form. Yet these cultural experts fail to notice that, through their anxious avoidance of criticizing non-Western countries, they trap the people who represent these cultures in a state of backwardness. The experts may have the best of intentions, but as we all know, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
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