"it is a giant step from hating the warriors to hating the war, and an even greater step to deciding that the "enemy" is the abstract institution of war, which maintains its grip on us even in the interludes we know as peace."
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Barbara Ehrenreich
1941 – 2022
US-amerikanische Schriftstellerin und Kolumnistin
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