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John Osborne

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This is a letter of hate. It is for you my countrymen, I mean those men of my country who have defiled it. The men with manic fingers leading the sightless, feeble, betrayed body of my country to its death.
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"A Letter To My Fellow Countrymen", Tribune, August 18, 1961.

 
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