...When we quietly go about our business as our rights are plundered, …

Naomi Wolf
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...When we quietly go about our business as our rights are plundered, when we yield to passivity and switch on the wii and hand over our power, we are not acting like true Americans. Indeed, at those moments we are giving up our citizenship. ✨ Naomi Wolf (2008). Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries, p.6, Simon and Schuster
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