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"In Praise of Dissent", New York Times, 16 December 1956
The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
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What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker defines a dissenter not as a special type of person but as anyone at the moments they step away from the crowd's opinion and think independently. Dissent becomes a shared human capacity, briefly exercised by everyone, rather than a rare identity.
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