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It is important to keep protesting, to keep forcing a conversation in the public arena. In any case, when you know what the right thing to do is, or that something must be said, it can be immoral and dangerous not to act.
Viggo Mortensen
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Viggo Mortensen
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: October 20
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