Wednesday, August 26, 2009

The Liberation of Literate Women (english paper)

Excerpt from English 4376 paper:
Silence is not always golden. It can become lackluster, old, and rusted like the bars of a cell in Sing-Sing. Silence overcompensates and overwhelms—encompassing all and nothing. Silence suffocates itself. It chokes on the word left unheard and the thought unspoken. Silence speaks volumes drowning its victims in a sea of vocabulary. Silence is so loud it deafens the ears of its listeners.
Silence is the method of the oppressive. It is the voice of injustice that speaks for “just us”. For those of us who have been used and abused by silence. For those of us who sit still when there are words to be written. For those of use who sit with pens clenched in fists while stories remain untold. For those of us who realize there are future generations to inform.
Silence is the beginning and the end—the alpha and omega—of the Revolution. The Revolution of wise words, thoughts, and actions. All it takes is one spark, one thought, one word, one voice to begin a chain of events that will make heads spin. In the beginning, this Revolution will not be televised. In the beginning, it will be written down and spoken aloud by our great-grandchildren. The Revolution will begin the liberation of millions of nations that can rise no higher than its women that raise its children.
In the end, this liberation will call silence out of hiding and challenge it to a debate it will surely lose because it doesn’t know which words to use. In the end, silence will be defeated so that men, women, and children of future generations will know they have options—know that more than one voice spoke them into existence. This Revolution is just the beginning. This Revolution is bigger than just us. It is for justice.

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