Thread by @AmnestyKenya

Wadau wa @ExperienceUSIU mko? Come and listen to our ED, @irunguhoughton as he talks about #DialogueandDissent as part of @TheConsulate1 and @UsiuLibrary’s #USIUALibraryMeetTheAuthorSeries. You can watch his remarks using the zoom details below 👇🏿
usiu-ac-ke.zoom.us/j/95335106712

“I wrote the book to distinguish activism as a sense of citizenship and patriotism,” @irunguhoughton
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“The second reason I wrote this book was to promote constitutionalism. The third reason was to cover the period before the Constitution was promulgated,” @irunguhoughton
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“What I wanted to look at was, what was the struggle for this constitution?” @irunguhoughton
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@irunguhoughton speaking of the moment when @gacheke2011 asked him to write the book. #USIUALibraryMeetTheAuthor

“I downloaded thousands of tweets, looked at them anew as streams of conscience for themes and began constructing the book chapters,” @irunguhoughton
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“What I realized is that the people we call activists are really everyday people who take extraordinary action,” @irunguhoughton
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“There is good news with that. It means you too can become an activist,” @irunguhoughton
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“In times of darkness and in times of evil there will always be good people finding their way to each other to construct a better tomorrow,”@irunguhoughton #USIUALibraryMeetTheAuthor

“Power is not information or knowledge, real power comes from imagination, declaration, and action,” @irunguhoughton
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“If you can imagine the future you can take action to create it,” @irunguhoughton
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“All around us, there are so many interesting things happening that we could write about,” @irunguhoughton
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“The day that I walked onto that playground, people saw me differently,” @irunguhoughton
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“The day I walked onto that playground I learned that comfort zones are essentially places you go to retire,”@irunguhoughton
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@irunguhoughton ending his remarks with this powerful quote from the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu. The arch of Justice will always come around ✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿
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“Justice is love out loud. Don’t start your premise as a hate for something and even if it is, change it into a love for something,”@irunguhoughton
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“It is not true that activism is ineffective,”@irunguhoughton
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“I would argue that the space we have for me to talk to you today is because of the academic freedoms fought for in the ‘80s,”@irunguhoughton
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“My question to you now is whether you will pay it forward,”@irunguhoughton
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