Freedom of Speech by Jan Theuninck, 2015

acrylic on canvas, 2015, 70 x 100 cm

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Shut up !

 

don't try to be

who you are

 

shut up !

 

some more discipline

and a cheerful face

 

shut up !

 

your duty is sacred

work yourself to death

 

shut up !

 

your only way

is "their" way

 

shut up !

 

© by Jan Theuninck

 

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- a speaker of truth has no friends - African proverb

- "The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it"(George Orwell)

-one even becomes a suspect for not thinking correctly!

(Jan Theuninck as quoted in Letteratour (29 November 2004)

 

- Speech writing at Australian National University

services.anu.edu.au/news-events/speech-writing-how-to-mak...

 

En France, la criminalisation de la parole publique

www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2021/09/SIZAIRE/63459

 

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Jan Theuninck is a Belgian painter

www.boekgrrls.nl/BgDiversen/Onderwerpen/gedichten_over_sc...

www.forumeerstewereldoorlog.be/wiki/index.php/Yperite-Jan...

www.graphiste-webdesigner.fr/blog/2013/04/la-peinture-bel...

www.eutrio.be/nl/expo-west-meet-east

www.eutrio.be/fr/expo-west-meets-east

 

 

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Done