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    We cannot trample upon the humanity of others

    Chinua AchebeBy Chinua Achebe
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    “We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n’ani ji onwe ya: ‘He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down’.”

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