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People who have realized that this is a dream imagine that it is easy to wake up, and are angry with those who continue sleeping, not considering that the whole world that environs them does not permit them to wake.

Source: My Past and Thoughts, vol. 3, pt. 6, England (1921; tr. by Constance Garnett, 1924 --27), on the power of history.
-- Alexander Herzen, (Apr 6 1812-1870), Russian author; He distrusted governments, was sceptical of western democratic forms, and had great faith in the power of peasants and other ordinary people to organise themselves.


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