The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
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When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.
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Everyone has their own ways of expression. I believe we all have a lot to say, but finding ways to say it is more than half the battle.
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This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.
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If we are not being maligned, scandalizing those who still sleep in the church, then we are missing the incarnational call to love the world's most vulnerable, the world's exiled, the world's most wounded. Our concern should be what the poor and prostituted think of us, what the God of the universe thinks of us, not what those around us think of us.
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I am not anxious to be the loudest voice or the most popular. But I would like to think that at a crucial moment, I was an effective voice of the voiceless, an effective hope of the hopeless.
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Yawns are not the only infectious things out there besides germs. Giggles can spread from person to person. So can blushing. But maybe the most powerful infectious thing is the act of speaking the truth.
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Let them hear your voice so rarely that a simply-uttered word creates a hush of expectancy in the room.
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