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Since childhood, I'd believed it was important to speak out against bullies while also not stooping to their level. And to be clear, we were now up against a bully, a man who among other things demeaned minorities and expressed contempt for prisoners of war, challenging the dignity of our country with practically his every utterance. I wanted Americans to understand that words matter--that the hateful language they heard coming from their TVs did not reflect the true spirit of our country and that we could vote against it. It was dignity I wanted to make an appeal for--the idea that as a nation we might hold on to the core thing that had sustained my family, going back generations. Dignity had always gotten us through. It was a choice, and not always the easy one, but the people I respected most in life made it again and again, every single day. There was a motto Barack and I tried to live by, and I offered it that night from the stage: When they go low, we go high.
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politics
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minorities
dignity
bullies
high
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Michelle Obama |
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bb8ab11
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"He banged on the side of the carriage. "Thomas! We must away at once to the nearest brothel. I seek scandal and low companionship."
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cassandra
clockwork
low
tess
william
clare
tessa
herondale
grey
company
companionship
will
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Cassandra Clare |
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9679593
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If his mutism was the symbolic death of the ego, it helped birth 'Warszawa' as an aural space, a city sensually reimagined. The 'words' - sula vie delejo - have the open vowel sounds of Japanese and the melodious thickness of Italian, sound objects that emanate from well inside the body and that crystalize in the vocals rather than on the written page, a language of intensity rather than intelligibility. The struggle to complete sentences also resulted in the fragmented 'Breaking Glass', the lyric-free 'Speed of Life' and 'A New Career in a New Town' (the intention was to write lyrics for both), the vibrating wordless chorus of 'Weeping Wall', the autistic private language of 'Subterraneans', the emotional interjections ('Ahhhh') of 'What in the World', the circularity of 'Always Crashing in the Same Car' and the repetitions of 'Be My Wife'.
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warszawa
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Dene October |