“[turn-the-other-cheek pacifism] only flourishes among the more prosperous classes, or among workers who have in some way escaped from their own class. The real working class . . . are never really pacifist, because their life teaches them something different. To abjure violence it is necessary to have no experience of it.” ~ George Orwell, 1941.
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