“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
About This Quote
This quote does not appear in 1984 as many people think it does. There is no record of Orwell saying this directly, so it is either a made up quote or a paraphrase from somewhere https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/290362/what-is-the-meaning-of-this-quote-as-it-applies-to-native-americans
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