“Choosing Words Over Bullets”
by R. Gustav Niebuhr (excerpts)
“To know is a civic responsibility. And we must learn to recognize demagogues for what they are when they try to wring poison from dogma.”
“To know is a civic responsibility. And we must learn to recognize demagogues for what they are when they try to wring poison from dogma.”
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