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Subject: Re: dowry
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Date: Thu, 17-Oct-85 11:31:16 EDT
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First the arranged marriage and now dowry. I am reminded of my
own dizzy days back in IITB several years ago. Used to be, when
world was black and white. There were absolute rights and absolute
wrongs. The mind errupted in uncontrolled rage to see any one
that held views that did not fit in what was the "right way".

Go on fellas. Feel indignant about the injustice.
However lest we forget -

Freedom and rights have seldom been given away by oppresors to the
oppressed. Almost all forms of liberties, including those from
social dogmas, have been won only when the victims of oppression
were willing to stand up and fight for their rights.
Flaming the perpetrators of injustice, when the large majority
of the victims are not willing to suffer the consequences of
refusing to submit to the injustice, is not going to solve any
problems.

-- 

Deepak S. Sabnis ...!{ihnp4,hplabs,amd,nsc}!amdahl!dss00    (408) 746-6058

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