Emily Dickinson
Poet
"What will the solemn Hemlock- What will the Oak tree say?"
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Hemlock
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Noam Chomsky
Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
"Go back to classical times, say classical Greece. Who drank the hemlock? Was it someone who was conforming, obeying the gods? Or was it someone who was disrupting the youth and questioning the faith and belief? Socrates, in other words. It was Socrates."
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