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I will never surrender the rights of the individual - the complete rights of the individual - to any ism whatever.

Murray Bookchin

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Murray Bookchin
Age: 85 †
Born: 1921
Born: January 14
Died: 2006
Died: July 30
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Ecologist
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The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking.
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