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Ezra Nawi (Photo: Margaret Olin)

Margaret Olin and David Shulman remember Ezra Nawi who died on January 9 at the age of 69. “During the eighteen years I knew him, he was usually under arrest, or on the verge of being arrested, or just released from jail,” Shulman writes. “Unknowingly, he embodied the Gandhian principle, or rather its negation: the best way to maintain an unjust system, Gandhi said, is to obey its laws.”