![]() ![]() The Ushtashi of WWII are, for me, the most cruel killers you can think of, but let’s not forget the Sino-Japanese War of 1937 during which Iwane Matsui, commander of the Japanese forces, gave his troops orders to literally obliterate the people of Nanjing just to boost the ego of Japan. That is why for every act of kindness you can mention across history, there are at least a dozen acts of cruelty. Bode Agbaje, one of my teachers when I took elective courses at the Department of Linguistics and African Languages in OAU, said something that has been difficult to forget: where a meeting is being held for your advancement in life, you usually would not be there.īut this world is not only a field of kindness it is also, and most usually, the domain of cruelty. Where would we all be without (random, planned) acts of kindness? Dr. ![]() She set about reforming life in UK prisons, and would be venerated by generations to come. Fry was in the prison to distribute clothing to the female prisoners, but the sight completely changed her life’s course. SOMETIME in 1913, British Quaker Elizabeth Fry, commemorated on the £5 note until May 2017, saw a ghastly image at Newgate Gaol: two women were busy taking clothes off a dead baby to dress a living one.
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