Mary Shelley on the Courage to Speak Up Against Injustice and the Power of Words in Revising the World
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Mary Shelley on the Courage to Speak Up Against Injustice and the Power of Words in Revising the World
And that visibility which makes us most vulnerable is that which also is the source of our greatest strength. Because the machine will try to grind you into dust anyway, whether or not we speak. We can sit in our corners mute forever while our sisters and our selves are wasted, while our children are distorted and destroyed, while our earth is
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It is only by getting the words right—describing the world as it is—that one can act rightly and resist on behalf of others and oneself.