Living Speech: Resisting the Empire of ForceLanguage is our key to imagining the world, others, and ourselves. Yet sometimes our ways of talking dehumanize others and trivialize human experience. In war other people are imagined as enemies to be killed. The language of race objectifies those it touches, and propaganda disables democracy. Advertising reduces us to consumers, and clich s destroy the life of the imagination. How are we to assert our humanity and that of others against the forces