The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social a…

Hannah Arendt
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade. ✨ Crises of the Republic. Book by Hannah Arendt. Chapter: Civil Disobedience, 1972.
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