I feel it is my duty to state that the INS official is innocent of the accusation of espionage made against him, and I can help to prove it.

I have become the victim of a major slander. I have been wrongly accused of doing intelligence work in the United States. ... The accusation brought against me is absolutely false.

From this moment I declare myself on a hunger strike until I have been absolutely cleared of the accusations brought against me.

The first duty of a man is to think for himself

As God has not made anything useless in this world, as all beings fulfill obligations or a role in the sublime drama of Creation, I cannot exempt from this duty, and small though it be, I too have a mission to fill, as for example: alleviating the sufferings of my fellowmen.

It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most enormous wrong; he may still properly have other concerns to engage him; but it is his duty, at least, to wash his hands of it, and, if he gives it no thought longer, not to give it practically his support. If I devote myself to other pursuits and contemplations, I must first see, at least, that I do not pursue them sitting upon another man's shoulders.