Kshitij Kumar

“It's better to face your fear than to run from it. Because running from it won't take away the fear. When you face it, you have the chance to conquer it.”
― Maria Ressa, How to Stand Up to a Dictator

“Silence is complicity because silence is consent. “What we’re seeing is death by a thousand cuts of our democracy,” I continued. “And I appeal to you to join me. . . . I’ve always said that when I look back a decade from now, I want to make sure—” My voice broke then, so I repeated the sentence. “I want to make sure that I have done all I can. We will not duck. We will not hide. We will hold the line.”
― Maria Ressa, How to Stand Up to a Dictator: A Nobel Laureate's Fight Against Authoritarianism -- Includes an Introduction by Amal Clooney

“Without facts, you can't have truth. Without truth, you can't have trust.”
― Maria Ressa, How to Stand Up to a Dictator

“there is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.”
― Maria Ressa, How to Stand Up to a Dictator: A Nobel Laureate's Fight Against Authoritarianism -- Includes an Introduction by Amal Clooney