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Hitchcock Lecture from UC Berkeley
Identity and Violence: The Violence of Illusion
by Amartya Sen
Saturday 14 June 2008
"They came first for the Communists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist; And then they came for the trade unionists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist; And then they came for the Jews, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew; And then... they came for me... And by that time there was no one left to speak up." --Martin Niemöller
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