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“I cannot imagine a scenario where Donald Trump does better than Mitt Romney with the Hispanic vote.”

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Julian Castro is a former mayor of San Antonio, Texas, USA. Born on September 16, 1974, he is a prominent politician and activist. During his tenure as mayor, he promoted economic development, community services, and infrastructure improvement in the city. more

“A more appropriate expansion is the statement "it is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies" a transcript of a talk to a writers conference in Australia in 1996, where I had been asked to talk on "writers and intellectual responsibility" - a question that I said I found "puzzling," because I knew of nothing to say about it beyond truisms, though these were perhaps worth affirming because they are "so commonly denied, if not in words, then in consistent practice."”

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Author:Noam Chomsky

“To speak truth to power is not a particularly honorable vocation. One should seek out an audience that matters - and furthermore (another important qualification), it should not be seen as an audience, but as a community of common concern in which one hopes to participate constructively.”

Should Important Matter Speak Community Common Audience Concern Honorable Vocation Speak The Truth Qualifications

Author:Noam Chomsky

“I don't suggest that the observations are surprising or profound. Rather, they seem to me the merest truisms. I was not aware that [ Michel] Foucault had used the phrase "speaking truth to power." I had thought it was an old Quaker phrase.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky

“I don't entirely agree with the slogan "speaking truth to power."”

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