The responsibility of the writer as a moral agent is to try to bring the truth about matters of human significance to an audience that can do something about them. (Noam Chomsky)

The responsibility of the writer as a moral agent is to try to bring the truth about matters of human significance to an audience that can do something about them.

Noam Chomsky

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