"Ignorance defends itself savagely, and illiteracy, as I well knew, can be shrewd."

Knowledge, Ignorance, Defense, Resistance

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"Ignorance defends itself savagely, and illiteracy, as I well knew, can be shrewd."

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"I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy."

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"We are not subjects of a State founded upon law, but members of a society founded upon revolution. Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution. The Revolution is in the individual spirit, or it is nowhere. It is for all, or it is nothing. If it is seen as having any end, it will never truly begin."

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"Making female noises, shrieking and squeaking and being shrill, all those things that annoy people with longer vocal cords. Another case where the length of organs seems to be so important to men."

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