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Howard Zinn Quotes: Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens.
         

Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens.


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