Rebecca Solnit Quotes
Governments Fear Their People. They Fear We Will Exercise Our Power To Change Them, And They Fear We Will Panic. The First Is A Realistic If Undemocratic Fear, Since Changing Them Is Our Right; The Second Is A Self-aggrandizing Fantasy In Which Attempts To Alter The Status Quo Are Seen As Madness, Hysteria, Mob Rule.
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