“Our era being a civilized, revolutionary era, one must rely all the more on the force of the collective, of society, in all undertakings. More than ever the individual cannot stand apart but must join the collective, join society.”

—  Ho Chi Minh

"On Revolutionary Morality" (1958)
1950's, On Revolutionary Morality (1958)

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Vietnamese communist leader and first president of Vietnam 1890–1969

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