"I was a loyal Soviet citizen until the age of 20. What it meant to be a loyal citizen is to say what you are supposed to say, to read what you are permitted to read, to vote the way you are told to vote and, at the same time, to know that all this is a lie."
Natan Sharansky (Israeli politician, human rights activist)
Someday quite soon (if not now) a person may say "I was a loyal American citizen... it meant to say what you are supposed to say, to read what you are permitted to read, to vote the way you are told... at the same time, to know that all this is a lie."
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