“People claiming that some fundamental right is foreign to their culture—that stinks no matter who says it, fundamentalists, patriarchs, Leninists, metanats, I don’t care who. They aren’t going to get away with it here, not if I can help it.”

— Kim Stanley Robinson

Source: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 3, “A New Constitution” (pp. 128-129)

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