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Quote by Bernadine Dohrn
The aspects of patriotism that hush dissent, encourage going along

The aspects of patriotism that hush dissent, encourage going along, and sanction comfortable distancing and compliance with what is indecent and unacceptable… those aspects are too fundamental to ignore or gloss over. – Bernadine Dohrn

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