Asceticism is not that you should not own anything, but that nothing should own you. - Ali ibn Abi Talib

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We had no alternative except that of preparing for direct action, whereby we would present our very bodies as a means of laying our case before the conscience of the local and national community.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

Asceticism is not that you should not own anything, but that nothing should own you.

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