Osman asserted his dignity as a citizen to a guard on coup day

Evidence

Osman stood up to this man and told him that they might not be government leaders but that they were citizens, and the officer immediately corrected himself. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 1047

Categorization

• QUESTION: Unclear if this passage stands alone strong enough; it is a small character moment.
• XREF: connects to: Osman maintained his dignity toward a guard even in captivity; Osman defended the prisoners’ standing as citizens against the coup guards’ derision; Osman defined his political philosophy as resistance to injustice without personal vanity
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Osman maintained his dignity toward a guard even in captivity; Osman defended the prisoners’ standing as citizens against the coup guards’ derision; Osman defined his political philosophy as resistance to injustice without personal vanity