even the helpless victim of a hopeless situation, facing a fate he cannot change, may rise above himself, may grow beyond himself, and by so doing change himself. He may turn a personal tragedy into a triumph.

To paraphrase the Urdu poet Allama Iqbal: don’t be frightened of these furious violent winds—they blow only to make you fly higher.

“They tried to bury us. They didn’t know we were seeds.” —Mexican proverb