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Jonathan R. Miller Quotes: You are not responsible for the past, but insofar as you do nothing, you are complicit in the present created by it.
         

You are not responsible for the past, but insofar as you do nothing, you are complicit in the present created by it.


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This page presents the quote "You are not responsible for the past, but insofar as you do nothing, you are complicit in the present created by it.". Author of this quote is Jonathan R. Miller. This quote is about privilege, history-repeating-itself, silence,.