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Top 15 Suzy Hansen Quotes (2024 Update)

Suzy Hansen Quote: “American exceptionalism had declared our country unique in the world, the one truly free and modern country, and instead of ever considering that that exceptionalism was no different from any other country’s nationalistic propaganda, I had internalized this belief as the basis of my reality. Wasn’t that indeed what successful propaganda was supposed to do?”

1. “American exceptionalism had declared our country unique in the world, the one truly free and modern country, and instead of ever considering that that exceptionalism was no different from any other country’s nationalistic propaganda, I had internalized this belief as the basis of my reality. Wasn’t that indeed what successful propaganda was supposed to do?”

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Suzy Hansen Quote: “This, I found, was what happened so often to me in Turkey: You’re learning about a country, you have read books, and so you know what bad things have happened, and where, and then you go to those places, and you can’t help but feel haunted by your knowledge of the invisible past.”

2. “This, I found, was what happened so often to me in Turkey: You’re learning about a country, you have read books, and so you know what bad things have happened, and where, and then you go to those places, and you can’t help but feel haunted by your knowledge of the invisible past.”

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Suzy Hansen Quote: “Ignorance is vulnerable to the atmosphere it is exposed to.”

3. “Ignorance is vulnerable to the atmosphere it is exposed to.”

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Suzy Hansen Quote: “There was a sense that we were there to get things done very quickly, what James Baldwin had called America’s “funny sense of time,” as if “with enough time and all that fearful energy and virtue you people have, everything will be settled, solved, put in its place.”

4. “There was a sense that we were there to get things done very quickly, what James Baldwin had called America’s “funny sense of time,” as if “with enough time and all that fearful energy and virtue you people have, everything will be settled, solved, put in its place.”

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Suzy Hansen Quote: “My friends’ point was: While this class snobbery may offend your Western sensibilities, you, foreigner, are perhaps better off playing by the rules of this country, instead of your own. If I was going to live in Turkey, I had to learn to think like a Turk. These were not my rules to break.”

5. “My friends’ point was: While this class snobbery may offend your Western sensibilities, you, foreigner, are perhaps better off playing by the rules of this country, instead of your own. If I was going to live in Turkey, I had to learn to think like a Turk. These were not my rules to break.”

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Suzy Hansen Quote: “But it is very, very rare that young white Americans come across someone who tells them in harsh, unforgiving terms that they might be merely the easy winners of an ugly game, and indeed because of their ignorance and misused power, they might actually be the losers within a greater moral universe.”

6. “But it is very, very rare that young white Americans come across someone who tells them in harsh, unforgiving terms that they might be merely the easy winners of an ugly game, and indeed because of their ignorance and misused power, they might actually be the losers within a greater moral universe.”

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Suzy Hansen Quote: “But, ma’am, I have a question for you,” Ahmet, the Turkish miner who survived the Soma mine fire, had asked me. “Why didn’t you come before the fire? Why didn’t you think of us before?” What I had wanted to say-but did not have the courage to say-were the reasons, Ahmet, I had not thought of so many things.”

7. “But, ma’am, I have a question for you,” Ahmet, the Turkish miner who survived the Soma mine fire, had asked me. “Why didn’t you come before the fire? Why didn’t you think of us before?” What I had wanted to say-but did not have the courage to say-were the reasons, Ahmet, I had not thought of so many things.”

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Suzy Hansen Quote: “It is common to say Watergate shattered American innocence, that Vietnam shattered American innocence, that September 11 shattered American innocence, that Trump shattered American innocence. But this was all wishful thinking. American innocence never dies. That pain in my heart is my innocence.”

8. “It is common to say Watergate shattered American innocence, that Vietnam shattered American innocence, that September 11 shattered American innocence, that Trump shattered American innocence. But this was all wishful thinking. American innocence never dies. That pain in my heart is my innocence.”

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Suzy Hansen Quote: “We were all patriotic, but I can’t even conceive of what else we would’ve been, because our entire experience was domestic, interior, American. We.”

9. “We were all patriotic, but I can’t even conceive of what else we would’ve been, because our entire experience was domestic, interior, American. We.”

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Suzy Hansen Quote: “In school, we did not study world maps, because international geography, as a subject, had been long ago phased out of state curriculums. America was the world; there was no sense of America being one country on a planet of many countries. Even the Soviet Union seemed something more like the Death Star, flying overhead and ready to laser us to smithereens, than a country with people in it.”

10. “In school, we did not study world maps, because international geography, as a subject, had been long ago phased out of state curriculums. America was the world; there was no sense of America being one country on a planet of many countries. Even the Soviet Union seemed something more like the Death Star, flying overhead and ready to laser us to smithereens, than a country with people in it.”

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Suzy Hansen Quote: “Anti-Americanism is not some bitter mental disorder inflamed by conspiracy theories and misplaced furies and envy. It is a broken heart, a defensive crouch, a hundred-year-old relationship, bewilderment that an enormous force controls your life but does not know or love you.”

11. “Anti-Americanism is not some bitter mental disorder inflamed by conspiracy theories and misplaced furies and envy. It is a broken heart, a defensive crouch, a hundred-year-old relationship, bewilderment that an enormous force controls your life but does not know or love you.”

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Suzy Hansen Quote: “There’s an America that exists inside the borders of the United States, which is a very different entity from the America that projects its force outside the United States.”

12. “There’s an America that exists inside the borders of the United States, which is a very different entity from the America that projects its force outside the United States.”

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Suzy Hansen Quote: “Americans are surprised by the direct relationship between their country and foreign ones because we don’t acknowledge that America is an empire; it is impossible to understand a relationship if you are not aware you are in one.”

13. “Americans are surprised by the direct relationship between their country and foreign ones because we don’t acknowledge that America is an empire; it is impossible to understand a relationship if you are not aware you are in one.”

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Suzy Hansen Quote: “The American dream was to create our own destiny, but it’s perhaps an ethical duty, as a human being, and as an American, to consider that our American dreams may have come at the expense of a million other destinies.”

14. “The American dream was to create our own destiny, but it’s perhaps an ethical duty, as a human being, and as an American, to consider that our American dreams may have come at the expense of a million other destinies.”

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Suzy Hansen Quote: “We cannot go abroad as Americans in the twenty-first century and not realize that the main thing that has been terrorizing us for the last sixteen years is our own ignorance – our blindness and subsequent discovery of all the people on whom the empire-that-was-not-an-empire had been constructed without our attention or concern.”

15. “We cannot go abroad as Americans in the twenty-first century and not realize that the main thing that has been terrorizing us for the last sixteen years is our own ignorance – our blindness and subsequent discovery of all the people on whom the empire-that-was-not-an-empire had been constructed without our attention or concern.”

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Suzy Hansen Quote: “All change is dramatic for provincial people.”

16. “All change is dramatic for provincial people.”

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