He never thought he was right. The horror of all that had died under his will had become mundane to him. You see, the first horror is the horror itself. The real horror for him was accepting it as necessary.
He fell in with the quiet revolutionaries on campus__hose who felt that the disenfranchisement of half the population was ridiculous, those who did not accept that rights were predicated on skin tone__artly because he couldn__ bring himself to avoid tempting trouble. He agreed with all their points, but understood that they were freer to make them purely because they had the money to build a wall around their experiences. That was what people did, wasn__ it? Ignore the majority of experience and actively disengage from those telling them otherwise.
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He fell in with the quiet revolutionaries on campus__hose who felt that the disenfranchisement of half the population was ridiculous, those who did not accept that rights were predicated on skin tone__artly because he couldn__ bring himself to avoid tempting trouble. He agreed with all their points, but understood that they were freer to make them purely because they had the money to build a wall around their experiences. That was what people did, wasn__ it? Ignore the majority of experience and actively disengage from those telling them otherwise.
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