Abraar Karan

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 Since Monday, those are the words I keep hearing in my head in Paul's voice, "You know it's all going to be okay, right?"  

Paul treated people with love. Dignity is not enough. From that day forward, my standard for realizing human rights became love. 

I will always work to remember his greatest lesson: nothing is sustainable except for how we sustain each other. 

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[It] felt like an attempt reduce me to just another brown face in a white coat.

I knew these issues were far more complicated than creating stricter policies or having one colleague reprimand another.

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