You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder. — Nadine Gordimer, The Quotable Gordimer; or, The Wit and Wisdom of Nadine Gordimer
You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder. — Nadine Gordimer, The Quotable Gordimer; or, The Wit and Wisdom of Nadine Gordimer
You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder. — Nadine Gordimer, The Quotable Gordimer; or, The Wit and Wisdom of Nadine Gordimer
You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder. — Nadine Gordimer, The Quotable Gordimer; or, The Wit and Wisdom of Nadine Gordimer
You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder. — Nadine Gordimer, The Quotable Gordimer; or, The Wit and Wisdom of Nadine Gordimer
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You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder.

— Nadine Gordimer, The Quotable Gordimer; or, The Wit and Wisdom of Nadine Gordimer
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