How could anyone expect Karl's mother, a frail and distraught woman immersed in the sorrow of the loss of her husband and son, to stand up in front of the whole world and do such a courageous thing?

谁可以期望Karl的母亲，一个柔弱，沉浸在失去丈夫和独子悲苦中的普通妇人站在全世界面前做这样一件极需勇气的事？

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"We rely on them, we seek their favour, we live, we die politically because of what they write and what they show and sometimes that means we are not courageous or spineful enough to stand up when wrong has occurred, " he said.

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