When I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natur…

George Orwell
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When I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do not have to ask myself which side I am on. ✨ George Orwell (2016). Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London, p.131, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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