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If Communism was liberalism in a hurry, liberalism is Communism in slow motion.

Joseph Sobran

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Joseph Sobran
Age: 64 †
Born: 1946
Born: February 23
Died: 2010
Died: September 30
Journalist
Writer
Ypsilanti
Michigan
Slow
Politics
Hurry
Liberalism
Motion
Communism

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