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->''"I remember how the meaning of words began to change. How unfamiliar words like 'collateral' and 'rendition' became frightening, while things like Norsefire and the Articles of Allegiance became powerful. I remember how 'different' became dangerous. I still don't understand it, why they hate us so much."''
-->--'''Valerie''', ''Film/VForVendetta''

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->''"I remember how the meaning of words began to change. How unfamiliar words like 'collateral' and 'rendition' became frightening, while things like Norsefire and the Articles of Allegiance became powerful. I remember how 'different' became dangerous. I still don't understand it, why they hate us so much."''
-->--'''Valerie''', ''Film/VForVendetta''

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\n->''"I remember how the meaning of words began to change. How unfamiliar words like 'collateral' and 'rendition' became frightening, while things like Norsefire and the Articles of Allegiance became powerful. I remember how 'different' became dangerous. I still don't understand it, why they hate us so much."''\n-->--'''Valerie''', ''Film/VForVendetta''----
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In the lighted areas one sees them everywhere. Even the street signs at intersections have been pressed into service, and at practically every street corner I passed this evening on my way to HQ there was a dangling corpse, four at every intersection. Hanging from a single overpass only about a mile from here is a group of about 30, each with an identical placard around its neck bearing the printed legend, "I betrayed my race." Two or three of that group had been decked out in academic robes before they were strung up, and the whole batch are apparently faculty members from the nearby UCLA campus.

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In the lighted areas one sees them everywhere. Even the street signs at intersections have been pressed into service, and at practically every street corner I passed this evening on my way to HQ there was a dangling corpse, four at every intersection. Hanging from a single overpass only about a mile from here is a group of about 30, each with an identical placard around its neck bearing the printed legend, [[CategoryTraitor "I betrayed my race." "]] Two or three of that group had been decked out in academic robes before they were strung up, and the whole batch are apparently faculty members from the nearby UCLA campus.
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-->-- ''Literature/TheTurnerDiaries''

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-->-- ''Literature/TheTurnerDiaries''''Literature/TheTurnerDiaries''

->''"I remember how the meaning of words began to change. How unfamiliar words like 'collateral' and 'rendition' became frightening, while things like Norsefire and the Articles of Allegiance became powerful. I remember how 'different' became dangerous. I still don't understand it, why they hate us so much."''
-->--'''Valerie''', ''Film/VForVendetta''
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->Today has been the Day of the Rope--a grim and bloody day, but an unavoidable one. Tonight, from tens of thousands of lampposts, power poles, and trees throughout this vast metropolitan area the grisly forms hang.\\
In the lighted areas one sees them everywhere. Even the street signs at intersections have been pressed into service, and at practically every street corner I passed this evening on my way to HQ there was a dangling corpse, four at every intersection. Hanging from a single overpass only about a mile from here is a group of about 30, each with an identical placard around its neck bearing the printed legend, "I betrayed my race." Two or three of that group had been decked out in academic robes before they were strung up, and the whole batch are apparently faculty members from the nearby UCLA campus.
-->-- ''Literature/TheTurnerDiaries''

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