Olave describes her foray into social activism
Olave describes her foray into social activism, motivated by the sense that she needed to start doing something about injustice rather than endlessly reading about it.
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Oral History Interview with Katushka Olave, December 9, 1998. Interview K-0659. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) in the Southern Oral History Program Collection, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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So, perhaps that background could be, or
perhaps because I have in my blood, since my name is Katushka and
I'm a Russian [Laughter] but also
another factor was when I said before that I realized and I knew that
how life was when I started volunteering to become a missionary, when I
was in high school. I just see how different society
is and how we can change. I mean kind of like doing a social change,
just living whatever I had and be part of them. And I think that was the
main reason why I changed. I was just getting tired of being involved in
the sameߞ, like staying in the same dress all the time. I
wanted to do something different, I wanted to help people, instead of
them helping me. It's more, kind of like, what I would say,
kind of likeߞ, sometimes we talk too much, we are too
educated, we have too much knowledge, but it's different what
you do in the practice. You learn a lot, I mean you can read books and
tons of things, but it's not the same way as you need to do
it.
- ALICIA ROUVEROL:
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It has to be out there, yeah.
- KATUSHKA OLAVE:
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It's different and I think for me, and I value a lot of what
humanity is, and I value also the rights from the human beings,
it's because I saw them, I live with them, with the community
in order to value. That would be different and that's what I
was doing before I get involved. I just saw them from like,
it's the same like you are watching a Christmas party. You
know, you're out watching and you love it but you
don't know how much those people they need to train
themselves or, I don't know, practice or whatever, you know,
get involved. How did they get those consumes? How didߞ.
- ALICIA ROUVEROL:
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In order to really learn.
- KATUSHKA OLAVE:
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Right. You know, so those are little things that make, and brought me
toߞ.