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QUOTATION:In the relations of a weak Government and a rebellious people there comes a time when every act of the authorities exasperates the masses, and every refusal to act excites their contempt.
ATTRIBUTION:John Reed (1887–1920), U.S. journalist, author. Ten Days That Shook the World, ch. 3 (1919).
 
 
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