"To be free in my mind means you must also be physically free, able to use your own body."

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“The dialogue that carries us from knowledge to awareness, and from awareness to commitment.”

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“The vast majority spent their days reading the Quran. The others, like me, did not know what to do, except for a bit of exercise or playing checkers.”

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