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Noam Chomsky (1928) american linguist, philosopher and activist
“To be an intellectual really means to speak a truth that allows suffering to speak.”
"Chekhov, Coltrane, and Democracy: Interview by David Lionel Smith." in The Cornel West Reader (1998)
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