Zak Ebrahim Quotes

#1. I'm tired of hating people

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#2. I put people before gods. I respect believers of all kinds and work to promote interfaith dialogue, but my whole life I've seen religion used as a weapon, and I'm putting all weapons down.

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#3. I'm convinced that empathy is more powerful than hate and that our lives should be dedicated to making it go viral.

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#4. ...shame spreads through his body like a drop of red dye in water.

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#5. A man is but a product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes. - Gandhi

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#6. People try nonviolence for a week, and when it 'doesn't work,' they go back to violence, which hasn't worked for centuries.

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#7. Ahmed is not a murderer like my father, but within the walls of our apartment - among people he claims to love - he is every inch a terrorist.

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#8. Everyone has a choice. Even if you're trained to hate, you can choose tolerance. You can choose empathy.

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#9. No one's ever sat me down and taught me what empathy is or why it matters more than power or patriotism or religious faith. But I learn it right there in the hallway: I cannot do what's been done to me.

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