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Noam Chomskyborn 1928

Noam Chomsky on responsibility

It is the fundamental duty of the citizen to resist and to restrain the violence of the state.

Foreword to John Duffett (ed.), Against the Crime of Silence: Proceedings of the International War Crimes Tribunal (1970), p. xxiv

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