Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes…

Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.

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Noam Chomsky, In American Power and the New Mandarins (1969)

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