Rights without Rights Activism
English book, p. 229
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
Rights without Rights Activism De-condition your conditioning and you will instantly emerge as a new person – better than what you were in the past. Rights without Rights Activism It is every time better to engage in the kind of activism which lays emphasis on duty and then you wil have no complaints against anyone. T he well-known tennis champion, Martina Navratilova was born in Communist Czechoslovakia in 1956. Because of her pro-American ideas, the Czech authorities stripped Martina of her nationality in 1975. In 1981, she acquired American nationality. Martina worked very hard on her sport and went on to become a famous tennis star, winning several championships. Czech citizenship was her right but, even when her right was taken away, she neither protested nor engaged herself in any activism to regain this right. She focussed on her game and went on to become a champion. This changed the mind of the Czech government. Navratilova, who was earlier considered a liability for the Czech government, later on emerged as an asset and her citizenship was restored in 2008. In such situations, often people resort to making protests and demands. It is a matter of record that they

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