No progress, either moral or material, can be made in a world which is frozen, like ours, into a rigid mold of suppression of liberties. (Damon Knight)

No progress, either moral or material, can be made in a world which is frozen, like ours, into a rigid mold of suppression of liberties.

Damon Knight

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