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"The most courageous deed is still to remember for yourself. Aloud."
― Coco Chanel

"When a man gives his opinion, he's a human. When a adult female gives her stance, she'south a bitch."
― Bette Davis

"I was going to die, sooner or later, whether or not I had even spoken myself. My silences had non protected me. Your silences will not protect you.... What are the words you do not notwithstanding accept? What are the tyrannies you lot swallow day by day and endeavour to make your own, until y'all volition sicken and dice of them, still in silence? Nosotros have been socialized to respect fear more than our ain need for language."

I began to ask each time: "What's the worst that could happen to me if I tell this truth?" Different women in other countries, our breaking silence is unlikely to have united states jailed, "disappeared" or run off the road at night. Our speaking out will irritate some people, get the states chosen dyspeptic or hypersensitive and disrupt some dinner parties. And then our speaking out will permit other women to speak, until laws are changed and lives are saved and the world is contradistinct forever.

Next time, ask: What'southward the worst that will happen? Then push yourself a picayune further than you dare. Once you start to speak, people volition yell at you. They volition interrupt yous, put y'all down and suggest information technology's personal. And the world won't end.

And the speaking volition go easier and easier. And you will find y'all have fallen in love with your own vision, which you may never have realized you lot had. And you lot will lose some friends and lovers, and realize you lot don't miss them. And new ones will notice you and cherish you. And you will notwithstanding flirt and paint your nails, dress upwardly and political party, because, every bit I think Emma Goldman said, "If I tin can't trip the light fantastic toe, I don't desire to be part of your revolution." And at terminal you'll know with surpassing certainty that only 1 thing is more frightening than speaking your truth. And that is non speaking."
― Audre Lorde

"I take come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the gamble of having information technology bruised or misunderstood."
― Audre Lorde

"A Litany for Survival

For those of united states of america who live at the shoreline
continuing upon the abiding edges of decision
crucial and alone
for those of the states who cannot indulge
the passing dreams of pick
who love in doorways coming and going
in the hours betwixt dawns
looking inward and outward
at once before and after
seeking a now that tin can breed
futures
like bread in our children's mouths
so their dreams will not reflect
the decease of ours:

For those of us
who were imprinted with fright
similar a faint line in the center of our foreheads
learning to be afraid with our mother's milk
for past this weapon
this illusion of some safety to exist found
the heavy-footed hoped to silence us
For all of united states of america
this instant and this triumph
We were never meant to survive.

And when the sun rises we are afraid
information technology might non remain
when the dominicus sets we are afraid
it might not rise in the morning
when our stomachs are full we are afraid
of indigestion
when our stomachs are empty nosotros are afraid
nosotros may never swallow once more
when nosotros are loved we are afraid
love will vanish
when we are alone we are afraid
love volition never return
and when we speak we are afraid
our words will non be heard
nor welcomed
only when we are silent
we are all the same afraid

So it is better to speak
remembering
we were never meant to survive."
― Audre Lorde, The Black Unicorn: Poems

"My silences had non protected me. Your silence will non protect you. Simply for every real discussion spoken, for every attempt I had always made to speak those truths for which I am all the same seeking, I had made contact with other women while we examined the words to fit a earth in which we all believed, bridging our differences."
― Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals

"A choir is fabricated up of many voices, including yours and mine. If one by one all get silent then all that will be left are the soloists.

Don't let a loud few determine the nature of the audio. It makes for poor harmony and diminishes the vocal."
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

"Information technology'due south non unpatriotic to denounce an injustice committed on our behalf, perhaps it's the almost patriotic affair we tin do."
― Eastward.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly,

"To say nothing is saying something. You must denounce things y'all are against or one might believe that you support things you really do not."
― Germany Kent

"Yawns are not the merely infectious things out at that place as well germs.

Giggles can spread from person to person.

And so tin blushing.

Only perchance the most powerful infectious thing is the human activity of speaking the truth."
― Vera Nazarian

"I am not anxious to be the loudest vocalization or the most popular. Merely I would like to retrieve that at a crucial moment, I was an constructive voice of the voiceless, an effective hope of the hopeless."
― Whitney M. Young Jr.

"And fifty-fifty when they refuse to listen, I'll go along talking anyway, hoping on a slim take a chance that the things inside my caput are worth something to someone."
― Nadège Richards, 5 Miles

"Only by speaking out can nosotros create lasting modify. And that modify begins with coming out."
― DaShanne Stokes

"I'm a Prince of Wales Trust ambassador, so I'm all about giving youth an education, a voice and a chance to non take the wrong road."
― Benedict Cumberbatch

"Fools multiply when wise men are silent."
― Nelson Mandela

"Nosotros all have a sphere of influence. Each of us needs to find our own sources of backbone so that we tin can brainstorm to speak. At that place are many problems to address, and nosotros cannot avoid them indefinitely. We cannot continue to be silent. We must brainstorm to speak, knowing that words alone are insufficient. But I have seen that meaningful dialogue can lead to constructive action. Change is possible."
― Beverly Daniel Tatum, Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?

"We who take ways and a voice must employ them to assist those who have neither."
― Jennifer Donnelly, These Shallow Graves

"I ever like to say "be the Swede". Show upwardly for the vulnerable, do your role, help each other and confront the darkest parts alongside survivors."
― Chanel Miller

"I have to think nearly that one for a minute. "Everybody's pissed 'cause One-Fifteen hasn't been charged," I say, "but also considering he'south not the first 1 to do something like this and go away with it. It'due south been happening, and people will continue rioting until information technology changes. So I guess the system's still giving hate, and everybody'southward all the same getting fucked?"

Daddy laughs and gives me dap. "My daughter. Watch your rima oris, but yeah, that's almost right. And we won't stop getting fucked till it changes. That's the key. It'southward gotta change."

A lump forms in my throat as the truth hits me. Hard. "That's why people are speaking out, huh? Because information technology won't alter if we don't say something."

"Exactly. We can't be silent."

"So I can't be silent."
― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

"One day, you will come to realise that people volition always endeavor and wriggle out of the uncomfortable truths, choosing instead to cushion their fragile egos with the lies they desire to hear. Well, now I realise, it is our job to make them heed."
― Rosie Hewlett, Medusa

"Our playing pocket-sized does not serve the earth. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking and so others won't feel insecure around the states! As nosotros get liberated from our fears, we are complimentary to experience life as it is meant to be! If we are to be free from oppression and control, nosotros must take accuse of our own lives and in our magnificence, stand and speak our truth. In our doing, we let our light shine...
(Stella: She was kicked out of the Faith because she objected to her 16 Yr sometime daughter beingness given in marriage to a 39 year former polygamist man.)"
― Jenny Jessop Larson, From Educate to Hogwash: Escaping and Exposing Polygamy

"Be empowered to tell your story."
― Germany Kent

"Scared of what people will remember if you speak upward?

Fear of existence wrong is probable the fear of other people'south judgement, which is actually your own self-judgement.

Can y'all love yourself even when yous fail?
Tin can you have the courage to be wrong in the process of learning?"
― Benjamin Brown

"Nandu kyon bol kar bura blight? Unke nire dost baithe hain na, unke human kee bolne ko.

Why should Nandu speak and become bad? His friends are sitting in that location to speak what his centre wants."
― Geetanjali Shree

"I always remember earlier I speak. I always retrieve: 'I recall I'll speak now'."
― The Covert Comic

"Freedom is every bit, Freedom does, accept activeness."
― Najah Roberts

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