Growing up in this post-apartheid era, the first generation of teens in South Africa living in this new democracy, I often found myself feeling different. I was often the only person of color in an otherwise all-white school. And within the Indian community, because of my training with an English acting teacher, my accent was very different.

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The people of Israel have lived 3,700 years without a memorandum of understanding with America and will continue to live without it another 3,700 years. -Menachem Begin

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When women and girls rise, their communities and their countries rise with them

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A Senegalese poet said 'In the end we will conserve only what we love. We love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught.' We must learn about other cultures in order to understand, in order to love, and in order to preserve our common world heritage.

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The German debt to the Jewish people can never end, not in this generation and not in any other. -Menachem Begin

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But many of us seek community solely to escape the fear of being alone. Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape. ― Bell Hooks

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We don't need legitimacy. We exist. Therefore we are legitimate. -Menachem Begin

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For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community. — Joe Biden

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Operation Peace for Galilee is not a military operation resulting from the lack of an alternative. -Menachem Begin

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The framework for peace signed by Egypt and Israel is almost a peace treaty. We solved the problem for the peace treaty 98%. -Menachem Begin

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