--- title: "2 Mark P. Whitaker Quotes" description: "Mark P. Whitaker has 2 quotes on SMS4Smile. Browse their most insightful sayings." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b026/author-mark-p-whitaker-101229.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Mark P. Whitaker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b026/author-mark-p-whitaker-101229.jpg) # Mark P. Whitaker **2** quotes in **9** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet ## Quotes by Mark P. Whitaker > [“He began to think, here, of local intellectuals such as the pulavar and of his friends in the Readers’ Circle, as keys…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-p-whitaker/he-began-to-think-here-of-local-intellectuals-such-as-the-pulavar-and/) [Mark P. 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I threatened to call the American Embassy if they arrested my ‘student.’ The offi cer yelled, in English, for me to come no closer, to get back in the trishaw. Then he barked an order, and one of the soldiers lifted his rifl e and aimed it directly at my head. I kept babbling on about the embassy, but even I did not hear myself. All I could see was that hole at the end of the rifl e and, above it, the sweaty face and very frightened eyes of the soldier. He looked very young, maybe 18. I thought, I’m going to die right now. And then we grew very quiet. The offi cer barked another order, the soldier lowered his gun, and the other soldiers pushed Sivaram back toward the trishaw. We got in and took off. I do not believe we said anything on the way back to my rented room. I remember giving the trishaw driver a big tip. Once inside, I sat down in one of the two big rattan chairs in my room and tried to light a cigarette. But I had the shakes and kept missing the end. Sivaram lit it for me, and then sat staring at me in the other chair. ‘My God,’ I said, ‘that was horrible. He could have killed us.’ ‘He wanted to kill us both.’ ‘My God.’ ‘But, one good thing maccaan, at last you begin to understand politics now”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mark P. Whitaker" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-p-whitaker/it-was-a-roadblock-manned-by-an-officer-and-several-other-soldiers/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c2b/mark-p-whitaker-101229_good-thing_it-was-a-roadblock-manned-by-an-officer_2614512.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c2b/mark-p-whitaker-101229_good-thing_it-was-a-roadblock-manned-by-an-officer_2614512.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c2b/mark-p-whitaker-101229_good-thing_it-was-a-roadblock-manned-by-an-officer_2614512.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“It was a roadblock, manned by an officer and several other soldiers. 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