...Language is fragile. Words can erase and distort so many things. Justice, reason, democracy, freedom, goodness, truth-we have used these words in the service of widely different intentions. We have used them in humane ways and in deeply violent ways... (Madeleine Thien)

...Language is fragile. Words can erase and distort so many things. Justice, reason, democracy, freedom, goodness, truth-we have used these words in the service of widely different intentions. We have used them in humane ways and in deeply violent ways...

Madeleine Thien

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