“Thinking it over, everybody has a long tradition of defiance against authority.”

—  Donald E. Westlake

Dancing Aztecs (1976)
Context: Hispanics have a long tradition of defiance against authority. Come to that, the Irish and Italians and Jews also have a long tradition of defiance against authority. Thinking it over, everybody has a long tradition of defiance against authority. (Except the Germans, of course.)

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