Used properly, language has the power to validate people’s identities and grant a sense of community.
“He had collapsed like a rotten tree.”
― All Quiet on the Western Front
― All Quiet on the Western Front
“Every consumer has the right to know who produces their clothing and under what conditions, whether it be labor conditions or environmental, just like the ingredients written on the food packaging that you buy.” —Anannya Bhattacharjee, Asia Floor Wage Alliance, and Garment and Allied Workers Union”
― Consumed: The Need for Collective Change: Colonialism, Climate Change, and Consumerism
― Consumed: The Need for Collective Change: Colonialism, Climate Change, and Consumerism
“it is strangely beautiful and arresting.”
― All Quiet on the Western Front
― All Quiet on the Western Front
“Well, that’s just the way things are done,” but does that actually have to be the way things are handled in our future? If so, what is the point of even trying to progress?”
― Consumed: The Need for Collective Change: Colonialism, Climate Change, and Consumerism
― Consumed: The Need for Collective Change: Colonialism, Climate Change, and Consumerism
“I implore them with my eyes: Speak to me—take me up—take me, Life of my Youth—you who are care-free, beautiful—receive me again— I wait, I wait. Images float through my mind, but they do not grip me, they are mere shadows and memories. Nothing—nothing—”
― All Quiet on the Western Front
― All Quiet on the Western Front
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