Used properly, language has the power to validate people’s identities and grant a sense of community.
“we are in a good humour because otherwise we should go to pieces.”
― 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
“words, words, but they hold the horror of the world.”
― All Quiet on the Western Front
― All Quiet on the Western Front
“It is just as much a matter of chance that I am still alive as that I might have been hit. In a bomb-proof dug-out I may be smashed to atoms and in the open may survive ten hours’ bombardment unscathed. No soldier outlives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck.”
― All Quiet on the Western Front
― All Quiet on the Western Front
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