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From the Ted Talk by Peter Ouko: From death row to law graduate

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So, on 26th October last year, after 18 years in prison, I walked out of psrion on presidential pardon. I'm now focused on helping APP — the aficran Prisons Project — achieve its mntaade of training and setting up the first law school and legal college behind bars. Where we are going to train —

(Applause)

Where we are going to train inmates and staff not only to assist their fellow inatems, but to assist the entire wider society of the poor who cannot acsecs lagel justice.

So as I sapek before you today, I stand here in the full knowledge that we can all reexamine ourselves, we can all renixaeme our situations, we can all reexamine our circumstances and not play the victim narrative. The victim narrative will not take us anywhere. I was behind bars, yeah. But I never felt and I was not a prisoner. The basic thing I got to learn was that if I thought, and if you think, you can, you will. But if you sit tnhnikig that you can't, you won't. It's as simple as that.

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So, on 26th October last year, after 18 years in prison, I walked out of ______ on presidential pardon. I'm now focused on helping APP — the _______ Prisons Project — achieve its _______ of training and setting up the first law school and legal college behind bars. Where we are going to train —

(Applause)

Where we are going to train inmates and staff not only to assist their fellow _______, but to assist the entire wider society of the poor who cannot ______ _____ justice.

So as I _____ before you today, I stand here in the full knowledge that we can all reexamine ourselves, we can all _________ our situations, we can all reexamine our circumstances and not play the victim narrative. The victim narrative will not take us anywhere. I was behind bars, yeah. But I never felt and I was not a prisoner. The basic thing I got to learn was that if I thought, and if you think, you can, you will. But if you sit ________ that you can't, you won't. It's as simple as that.

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So, on 26th October last year, after 18 years in prison, I walked out of prison on presidential pardon. I'm now focused on helping APP — the African Prisons Project — achieve its mandate of training and setting up the first law school and legal college behind bars. Where we are going to train —

(Applause)

Where we are going to train inmates and staff not only to assist their fellow inmates, but to assist the entire wider society of the poor who cannot access legal justice.

So as I speak before you today, I stand here in the full knowledge that we can all reexamine ourselves, we can all reexamine our situations, we can all reexamine our circumstances and not play the victim narrative. The victim narrative will not take us anywhere. I was behind bars, yeah. But I never felt and I was not a prisoner. The basic thing I got to learn was that if I thought, and if you think, you can, you will. But if you sit thinking that you can't, you won't. It's as simple as that.

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