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It started with a whispered “no.”

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Your voice is waiting for you to give it a stage. To let it speak so that you can be listened to again.

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I’m slowly learning that you can never lose when you say the things that are truly worth saying.

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We all preach about how important it is to be honest, but rejection is so often the result of pure honesty. It’s really no surprise that we’re all so afraid.

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But here’s what I learned about settling and staying quiet when you should speak up, it doesn’t win you any more friends, it doesn’t make you a likable person and it doesn’t make you a cooler person, it only makes people take you for granted.

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Screw you, twisted society.
I refuse to forget because I want to remember.
You can’t silence, or bruise, or blind me,
can’t rape my spirit or take my name.

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Whenever you see something that goes against what you accepted to be unjust or unfair or wrong and you decided to change it, do it. Stop being afraid. Stop shaking.

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If it were your friend, sibling, or child who became the victim of this crime and someone witnessed it, wouldn’t you want them to step in and help them?

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Every girl becomes curious of how they would look with short hair at least once in their life whether it be a bob or full on boy cut.