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“It is absolutely necessary to their structure that there should be no contact with foreigners except to a limited extent with war prisoners and colored slaves. Even the official ally of the moment is always regarded with a darkest suspicion. War prisoners apart, the average citizen of Oceania never sets eyes on a citizen of either Eurasia or Eastasia and he is forbidden the knowledge of foreign languages. If he were allowed contact with foreigners, he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what has been told about them is lies.”
― 1984
― 1984
“Two young women stood back-to-back performing a slam poem called "Hir," rotating to face the mic as they gave voice to a girl named Melissa and the boy inside her named James.
'Sometimes she wishes she could rip the skin off her back,
Every moment of every day she feels trapped in the flesh of a stranger.”
― The 57 Bus
'Sometimes she wishes she could rip the skin off her back,
Every moment of every day she feels trapped in the flesh of a stranger.”
― The 57 Bus
“I had assumed [her] bravado was masking deep pain and suffering. But as we sat in that hospital room, I realized [her] bravado wasn't masking her pain. It was because of it. She would fight. Always and forever.”
― The Lion Women of Tehran
― The Lion Women of Tehran
“... I look at you ... and I wish for you not the world, nor the owning of it, nor even success in it.
I wish for you the ability to be free.
And I hope that you experience some moments so tender and dear that they make up for a thousand harsh ones.
Remember above all to always love.
Love madly.”
― The Lion Women of Tehran
I wish for you the ability to be free.
And I hope that you experience some moments so tender and dear that they make up for a thousand harsh ones.
Remember above all to always love.
Love madly.”
― The Lion Women of Tehran
“Take for example the well-known passage from the Declaration of Independence:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government...
It would have been quite impossible to render this into Newspeak while keeping a sense of the original. The nearest one could come to doing so would be to swallow the whole passage up in the single word crimethink.”
― 1984
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government...
It would have been quite impossible to render this into Newspeak while keeping a sense of the original. The nearest one could come to doing so would be to swallow the whole passage up in the single word crimethink.”
― 1984
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