1960s Quote by Noam Chomsky
“During the 1960s, large groups of people who are normally passive and apathetic began to try to enter the political arena to press their demands… The naive might call that democracy, but that's because they don't understand. The sophisticated understand that that's the crisis of democracy.”
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