It was the first time that I had ever been in a town where the working class was in the saddle ... There was… — George Orwell

It was the first time that I had ever been in a town where the working class was in the saddle ... There was much in it that I did not understand, in some ways I did not even like it, but I recognized it immediately as a state of affairs worth fighting for.

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