He takes a moment to think back. Rose deserves a better answer than I stopped fighting.
"Well, I--I don't think I really did anything." He takes a breath. "It didn't happen until a few months after Bill and I tried to reach the Authority. I was working on the watches at the time. I'd accepted that I needed to get people's consent if I was going to involve them in my studies, and I'd accepted that more, ah, active measures risked ship-wide catastrophe. That wasn't fair to the inmates who're stuck here. So, I started working on a project people could volunteer for, and, one day....I graduated."
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"Well, I--I don't think I really did anything." He takes a breath. "It didn't happen until a few months after Bill and I tried to reach the Authority. I was working on the watches at the time. I'd accepted that I needed to get people's consent if I was going to involve them in my studies, and I'd accepted that more, ah, active measures risked ship-wide catastrophe. That wasn't fair to the inmates who're stuck here. So, I started working on a project people could volunteer for, and, one day....I graduated."