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“It's to be a person who's able to shoot little arrows into sacred cows and knock politicians off their pedestals, to look out for hypocrisy, advocate for all sorts of things from social justice to peace.” quote by Jonathan Shapiro — Download Open image

“It's to be a person who's able to shoot little arrows into sacred cows and knock politicians off their pedestals, to look out for hypocrisy, advocate for all sorts of things from social justice to peace.”

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I try not to change my political point of view from paper to paper.

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I was very lucky all three newspapers approached me and asked me to draw their cartoons for them.

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On one occasion in 1987 the security police came looking for me because of a drawing that I'd published.

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