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Pacifist, activist and civil rights campaigner A.J. Muste, argued that “one must be a revolutionary before one can be a pacifist”. He pointed out that we must cease to “acquiesce [so] easily in evil conditions,” and must deal “honestly and adequately with this ninety percent of our problem … the violence on which the present system is based, and all the evil – material and spiritual – this entails for the masses of men throughout the world.” Unless we do so, he argued, “there is something ludicrous, and perhaps hypocritical, about our concern over the ten per cent of the violence employed by the rebels against oppression”.
According to The New York Times, Noam Chomsky is "arguably the most important intellectual alive." He has authored over 150 books and is the eighth most cited source of all time, and is considered the "most cited living author". His most recent books include American Power and the New Mandarins, Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel's War Against the Palestinians and How the World Works with Alternative Radio's David Barsamian. In 2011 Professor Chomsky was awarded the City of Sydney Peace Prize. On November 4th 2011 he delivered the City of Sydney Peace Prize lecture at the Sydney Opera House.
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