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)

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

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