"The first time we begin to listen to the cries of those whose strength has been silenced is the first time we refuse to be deafened by dictatorship."  --Prentiss Cooper, “Therefore We Refuse to Listen to the Poets”: Plato, Kaminsky, College Radio, and the Radical Act of Listening to Poetry in a Cynical Republic"

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