What we do need to worry about is the possibility that we will be reduced, in the face of the enormities of our time, to silence or to mere protest. (Wendell Berry)

What we do need to worry about is the possibility that we will be reduced, in the face of the enormities of our time, to silence or to mere protest.

Wendell Berry

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