“Sometimes tradition and habit are just that, comfortable excuses to leave things be, even when they are unjust and unworthy. Sometimes--not often, but sometimes--the cranks and radicals turn out to be right. Sometimes Everyone is wrong.”

Source: Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy

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American political writer and speechwriter 1959

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