Passivity may be the easy course, but it is hardly the honorable one. …

Noam Chomsky
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Passivity may be the easy course, but it is hardly the honorable one. ✨ Noam Chomsky (2015). Because We Say So, p.67, City Lights Books
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Passivity may be the easy course, but it is hardly the honorable one. ✨ Noam Chomsky (2015). Because We Say So, p.67, City Lights Books

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