May Quote by Wendell Berry

“We're all complicit in the things we may be trying to oppose. I'm complicit in the things that I'm trying to oppose.” quote by Wendell Berry — Download Open image

“We're all complicit in the things we may be trying to oppose. I'm complicit in the things that I'm trying to oppose.”

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