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You do not become a "dissident" just because you decide one
day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into
it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with
a complex set of external circumstances. You are cast out
of the existing structures and placed in a position of
conflict with them. It begins as an attempt to do your work
well, and ends with being branded an enemy of society.
--Vaclav Havel, writer, philosopher, politician

That's awesome. I had a quote similar to that at the bottom of the main page for the first year the POAC website was up.

"The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naive and
usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who loves his country more
than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us
when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime;
he is a good citizen driven to despair."
-- H.L. Mencken

You can see the ugly old POAC page here:

http://web.archive.org/web/20030802120717/...cancentury.org/