"Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.“

-Noam Chomsky

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"Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on democracy."

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"There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly."

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"We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won't be a world - at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others."

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"Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism."

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