I just couldn't believe it was my child. You hear about it happening around the world, but you don't really understand the concept until it's one of yours.

It's good that he is trying to do something.

He's the one suffering, scared to go outside. When he suffers, I suffer, and I don't feel it's right.

I know it can happen anywhere. But I'm not happy it happened to my son.

The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.

Radical simply means "grasping things at the root."