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Don't be afraid to stand up for what you believe. This theme refers to The Hate U Give because Starr made the decision to take a stand for Khalil.
In the book Starr is faced with the choice to stay quiet or speak up for Khalil. She struggles with the dicision, but once she did speak up she knew it was the right thing to do. This theme is important in everybodys life.

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"but this isn't about how khalil died, it's about the fact that he lived, His life mattered. Khalil lived!"

This was a major turning point when Starr told the police officers what she saw.

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"After seeing you face those cops like that it did something to me."

Starrs words are impacting the way her community thinks about what happened.

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"'remember what I said about your voice?' 'Ypu said its my biggest weapon'"
This is saying that speaking up is powerful

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In the movie hidden fugures there is an African American woman that is premoted to be the math opperations leader fot a space launch. She didn't get there easily. She had to speak up about her ability.

This directly relates to the theme of the book because because if she didn't speak up then she would have not been in that position.

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The movie Brave is about a princess that strongly disagrees about the fact that she cannot make her own decisions and live her own life. She had had enough and expressed what she truely wanted and she got what she wanted.

Thsi goes to show that standing up for your beliefs can change your life for the better.

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Look at Mike Smiths tattoo it says "Speak for the silent stand for the broken" This is exactly what the theme of the book.

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John 8 1-11
At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them. 3 The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group 4 and said to Jesus, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. 5 In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?” 6 They were using this question as a trap, in order to have a basis for accusing him.

But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger. 7 When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.” 8 Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground.

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Mahatma Gandhi was an anti violence leader/protester to british rule in India. He spoke his mind and ended up changing a nation.

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"all eyes were on a Senate hearing in Washington: Anita Hill — an African-American law professor — went before an all-male panel to testify that then-Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas had sexually harassed her."

-Elizabeth Blair
https://www.npr.org/2017/10/27/560231232/women-are-speaking-up-about-harassment-and-abuse-but-why-now

The currage it must have taken Anita was enormous, But her expression was the beginning of a movement.

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Martin Luther King Junior was a great voice for African Americans during the civil rights movement.

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"I'm not scared of the people who tell me I should be
Do what you love and don't ever wonder what it could be
Everybody from my hood, everybody know I'm good
Sometimes I'm misunderstood"

These lyrics are from the song Black Spiderman by logic. He speaks about his beliefs of inequality on all things in the media.