What’s a favorite quote or piece (extra points for link, triple points if it’s readable at link rather than purchasable at link) on how silence is complicity, what happens if you don’t speak up to injustice, etc by a writer who’s not white + abled + cishet? Ideally iso Global Majority voice. Thx! - ThreadSky

theradr.bsky.social • 21 days ago

What’s a favorite quote or piece (extra points for link, triple points if it’s readable at link rather than purchasable at link) on how silence is complicity, what happens if you don’t speak up to injustice, etc by a writer who’s not white + abled + cishet?

Ideally iso Global Majority voice. Thx!

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robinnoir.bsky.social•21 days ago

More than any quote or story. The lived experiences of, sadly, too many of our peers: and even of ourselves. I have no more pity than for those of us who are paralyzed by fear or the lie of security in silence.

robinnoir.bsky.social•21 days ago

That said, it doesn't exactly fit the prescribed paradigms, but the words of Dietrich Bonhoffer of for whom They came and what was not done... they echo in my mind every day. Because they will come for us all if we remain silent.

jolior.bsky.social•20 days ago

They haunt me, too. But without wanting to undo it: that was Martin Niemöller, who actually wasn't a Democrat.

robinnoir.bsky.social•20 days ago

Democrat in terms of pro-democracy?

jolior.bsky.social•20 days ago

Yes. If I remember correctly, he was a Conservative Nationalist in the 1930 German sense. Would have to research again, though. And I think that partly comes across in the poem: he wasn't concerned with any of it, until it was too late.

robinnoir.bsky.social•20 days ago

Sounds like a good bit to research myself. I am always looking to learn more: and there are so many voices/thoughts to hear and interpret through time.

mclpatrick.bsky.social•20 days ago

Desmond Tutu.

“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor”

I’m not sure if that was spoken or written. But it’s right on point.

themagdalen.bsky.social•20 days ago

Audre lorde all day

elizspy.bsky.social•20 days ago

Throughout history it has been the inaction of those who could have acted, the indifference of those who should have known better, the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most, that has made it possible for evil to triumph. -Haile Selassie

elizspy.bsky.social•20 days ago

If clicking on that weird link from a random person is a bit much, you can use this search term - 1627th - here https://digitallibrary.un.org/?ln=en

elizspy.bsky.social•20 days ago

Couldn't find a better link to the speech. It's 1/28/1972 speech to a Special Session of the Security Council.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://documents.un.org/access.nsf/get%3FOpenAgent%26DS%3DS/PV.1627(OR)%26Lang%3DE&ved=2ahUKEwjl3dmknbqLAxVdg4kEHXR-CZYQFnoECCUQAQ&usg=AOvVaw2IYSGw8UAxNjd5H_foiKUT

theradr.bsky.social•20 days ago

Thank you!

aivalentin.bsky.social•20 days ago

I consider Brasil part of the global south, so:

"Washing one’s hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral." – Paulo Freire

sukeytawdry.bsky.social•20 days ago

Power concedes nothing without a demand; it never did and it never will. ----Frederick Douglass

reustis.bsky.social•21 days ago

https://www.silverpress.org/products/your-silence-will-not-protect-you

jolior.bsky.social•20 days ago

I love that one especially because it isn't only concerned with privileged people. I feel so betrayed by public trans people who give people in league with Nazis a forum, or who don't say anything when one of us is bullied in front of their eyes, or who even take part in the bullying.

reustis.bsky.social•20 days ago

It is powerful work, and I think you have it exactly right.

theradr.bsky.social•20 days ago

Every day, always Lorde and always this collection, yes

marylang.bsky.social•21 days ago

“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor" Desmond Tutu

alexremington.bsky.social•21 days ago

I always loved the Klezmatics titling their album Shvaygn = Toyt.

cberwick.bsky.social•21 days ago

Also Audre Lorde, A Litany for Survival https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/147275/a-litany-for-survival

tillybridges.bsky.social•20 days ago

this is a small excerpt of a bigger discussion from my book Begin Transmission: The Trans Allegories of The Matrix

theradr.bsky.social•20 days ago

❤️💗❤️

avhn.clacks.link.ap.brid.gy•20 days ago

@theradr.bsky.social "If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor" - Archbishop Desmond Tutu

sarahjslack.bsky.social•21 days ago

📌

crazyreii.bsky.social•20 days ago

Quadruple points if it's watchable instead of readable?

This little video covering The Emperor's New Clothes is great in my opinion
https://youtu.be/7Ym0u-KweN4

davidac64.bsky.social•20 days ago

Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never.

Elle Wiesel, “Night”.

Available everywhere.

davidac64.bsky.social•20 days ago

Maybe not a “stand up to injustice quote”, but perfectly applicable, in my opinion.

sberkowi.bsky.social•20 days ago

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.” Ellie Wiesel
https://www.bu.edu

davidac64.bsky.social•20 days ago

💙💙💙💙💙

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