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Where the mind is without fear, and head is held high 

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Where the mind is without fear, and head is held high 

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Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;

Where knowledge is free;

Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;

Where words come out from the depth of truth;

Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;

Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;

Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action

Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.

- Tagore

How?

"How am I to find the strength to live as a free man, detached from all that was unjust in my past and all that is petty in my present, and so daily, to forgive myself?
Life will judge me by the measure of the love I myself am capable of, and with patience according to the measure of my honesty in attempting to meet its demands, and with an equity before which feeble explanations and excuses of self-importance carry no weight whatsoever."

-Dag Hammarskjöld, Markings, 4.7.57)

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Poet Amanda Gorman reads 'The Hill We Climb'

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Where do we go from here? Our next generation, which will be more diverse than ever, relies on us to continue to pave the path to a more just and intelligent future. We cannot give up the fight, even when so many are trying to drag us down. As a parent I choose to work each day to teach my biracial daughter that she is strong, powerful, and capable - that her diversity makes her worthy of celebration. I also work each day to address my own bias and maintain a high level of self-awareness. In our house black lives matter, women's rights are human rights, and intersectionality is the key to successfully overcoming all the obstacles we are facing in such a poisoned country.

- Marieka Kaye

(Photo credit: Marti Hwang Photography)

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Audre Lourde reminds me of what my work is as a white accomplice and social justice crusader

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Audre Lourde reminds me of what my work is as a white accomplice and social justice crusader

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“I was going to die, sooner or later, whether or not I had even spoken myself. My silences had not protected me. Your silences will not protect you.... What are the words you do not yet have? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence? We have been socialized to respect fear more than our own need for language."

I began to ask each time: "What's the worst that could happen to me if I tell this truth?" Unlike women in other countries, our breaking silence is unlikely to have us jailed, "disappeared" or run off the road at night. Our speaking out will irritate some people, get us called bitchy 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 altered forever.

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

And the speaking will get easier and easier. And you will find you have fallen in love with your own vision, which you may never have realized you had. And you will lose some friends and lovers, and realize you don't miss them. And new ones will find you and cherish you. And you will still flirt and paint your nails, dress up and party, because, as I think Emma Goldman said, "If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution." And at last you'll know with surpassing certainty that only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth. And that is not speaking.”
― Audre Lorde

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