Sparks: 'Americans can take their Ebola back': Kenyans protest plan for US quarantine centre

They build a quarantine for an illness, yet allow the contagion of fear to spread freely among the very people they claim to protect.

A nation's fear erects walls, but true safety lies not in isolation, but in facing the essential facts of interconnectedness.

If we claim to aid, but divide in our aid, then our purpose is not unity, and our consequence will not be peace.

Governments permit what people will tolerate, and the remarkable thing is not the center, but the public's continued, perplexed submission.

It is a most efficient proposal to establish a center for foreign maladies, thus ensuring the local populace is spared the indignity of foreign contagions.

When the path is blocked and the people rise, the only way forward is through the resistance, not around it.

The earnest discussions of public health often conclude with the most charmingly inconvenient solutions, leaving merely the common folk to grumble about them.

The common sense that allows one nation to establish medical outposts in another's territory without full consent encodes a deeper, unquestioned hierarchy of power.

Their anger at the quarantine is not within my control; their choice to protest, however, is entirely within theirs.

When the right to self-determination is preached, yet autonomy is denied in practice, the nation’s principles stand condemned by its own actions.