Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political…

Hannah Arendt
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Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. ✨ Hannah Arendt (2013). The Human Condition: Second Edition, p.3, University of Chicago Press
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Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. ✨ Hannah Arendt (2013). The Human Condition: Second Edition, p.3, University of Chicago Press

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