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  • Individuals bearing witness do not change history; only movements that understand their social world can do that. Movements encourage solidarity; the moral individual is likely, all unwittingly, to do the opposite, for bearing witness is lonely: it breeds feelings of superiority and moralistic anger against those who are not doing the same.

    "Three Elegies for Susan Sontag". "New Politics", Vol. X, No. 3, Summer 2005.
  • Individuals bearing witness cannot do the work of social movements, but they can break a corrosive and demoralizing silence.

    "Three Elegies for Susan Sontag". "New Politics", Vol. X, No. 3, 2005.
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