No one's ever sat me down and taught me what empathy is or why it matters more than power or patriotism or religious fai — Zak Ebrahim, The Terrorist's Son: A Story of Choice
No one's ever sat me down and taught me what empathy is or why it matters more than power or patriotism or religious fai — Zak Ebrahim, The Terrorist's Son: A Story of Choice
No one's ever sat me down and taught me what empathy is or why it matters more than power or patriotism or religious fai — Zak Ebrahim, The Terrorist's Son: A Story of Choice
No one's ever sat me down and taught me what empathy is or why it matters more than power or patriotism or religious fai — Zak Ebrahim, The Terrorist's Son: A Story of Choice
No one's ever sat me down and taught me what empathy is or why it matters more than power or patriotism or religious fai — Zak Ebrahim, The Terrorist's Son: A Story of Choice
No one's ever sat me down and taught me what empathy is or why it matters more than power or patriotism or religious fai — Zak Ebrahim, The Terrorist's Son: A Story of Choice
No one's ever sat me down and taught me what empathy is or why it matters more than power or patriotism or religious fai — Zak Ebrahim, The Terrorist's Son: A Story of Choice
No one's ever sat me down and taught me what empathy is or why it matters more than power or patriotism or religious fai — Zak Ebrahim, The Terrorist's Son: A Story of Choice
No one's ever sat me down and taught me what empathy is or why it matters more than power or patriotism or religious fai — Zak Ebrahim, The Terrorist's Son: A Story of Choice
No one's ever sat me down and taught me what empathy is or why it matters more than power or patriotism or religious fai — Zak Ebrahim, The Terrorist's Son: A Story of Choice
No one's ever sat me down and taught me what empathy is or why it matters more than power or patriotism or religious fai — Zak Ebrahim, The Terrorist's Son: A Story of Choice
No one's ever sat me down and taught me what empathy is or why it matters more than power or patriotism or religious fai — Zak Ebrahim, The Terrorist's Son: A Story of Choice
No one's ever sat me down and taught me what empathy is or why it matters more than power or patriotism or religious fai — Zak Ebrahim, The Terrorist's Son: A Story of Choice
No one's ever sat me down and taught me what empathy is or why it matters more than power or patriotism or religious fai — Zak Ebrahim, The Terrorist's Son: A Story of Choice
No one's ever sat me down and taught me what empathy is or why it matters more than power or patriotism or religious fai — Zak Ebrahim, The Terrorist's Son: A Story of Choice
No one's ever sat me down and taught me what empathy is or why it matters more than power or patriotism or religious fai — Zak Ebrahim, The Terrorist's Son: A Story of Choice
No one's ever sat me down and taught me what empathy is or why it matters more than power or patriotism or religious fai — Zak Ebrahim, The Terrorist's Son: A Story of Choice
No one's ever sat me down and taught me what empathy is or why it matters more than power or patriotism or religious fai — Zak Ebrahim, The Terrorist's Son: A Story of Choice
No one's ever sat me down and taught me what empathy is or why it matters more than power or patriotism or religious fai — Zak Ebrahim, The Terrorist's Son: A Story of Choice
No one's ever sat me down and taught me what empathy is or why it matters more than power or patriotism or religious fai — Zak Ebrahim, The Terrorist's Son: A Story of Choice
No one's ever sat me down and taught me what empathy is or why it matters more than power or patriotism or religious fai — Zak Ebrahim, The Terrorist's Son: A Story of Choice
No one's ever sat me down and taught me what empathy is or why it matters more than power or patriotism or religious fai — Zak Ebrahim, The Terrorist's Son: A Story of Choice
No one's ever sat me down and taught me what empathy is or why it matters more than power or patriotism or religious fai — Zak Ebrahim, The Terrorist's Son: A Story of Choice
No one's ever sat me down and taught me what empathy is or why it matters more than power or patriotism or religious fai — Zak Ebrahim, The Terrorist's Son: A Story of Choice
No one's ever sat me down and taught me what empathy is or why it matters more than power or patriotism or religious fai — Zak Ebrahim, The Terrorist's Son: A Story of Choice
No one's ever sat me down and taught me what empathy is or why it matters more than power or patriotism or religious fai — Zak Ebrahim, The Terrorist's Son: A Story of Choice
No one's ever sat me down and taught me what empathy is or why it matters more than power or patriotism or religious fai — Zak Ebrahim, The Terrorist's Son: A Story of Choice
No one's ever sat me down and taught me what empathy is or why it matters more than power or patriotism or religious fai — Zak Ebrahim, The Terrorist's Son: A Story of Choice
No one's ever sat me down and taught me what empathy is or why it matters more than power or patriotism or religious fai — Zak Ebrahim, The Terrorist's Son: A Story of Choice
No one's ever sat me down and taught me what empathy is or why it matters more than power or patriotism or religious fai — Zak Ebrahim, The Terrorist's Son: A Story of Choice
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No one's ever sat me down and taught me what empathy is or why it matters more than power or patriotism or religious faith. But I learn it right there in the hallway: I cannot do what's been done to me.

— Zak Ebrahim, The Terrorist's Son: A Story of Choice
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