history of silence

Having a voice is cruical. It's not all there is to human rights, but it's central to them, and so you can consider the history of women's rights and lack of rights a history of silence and breaking silence.

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And then when words break through unspeakability, what was tolerated by a society sometimes becomes intolerable. Those not impacted can fail to see or feel the impact of segregation or police brutality or domestic violence: stories bring home the trouble and make it unavoidable. 

- A Short History of Silence, in The Mother of All Questions, Rebecca Solnit (2017)

Photo: Women's March in Amsterdam, March 2017