A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today. The Western world has lost its civic courage, both ...

A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today. The Western world has lost its civic courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, in each government, in each political party, and, of course, in the United Nations. Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling and intellectual elites...

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn in Commencement Address at Harvard University (8 June 1978)
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