The Spoken Word
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A word, once spoken, cannot be unspoken—
it lives in the air after the mouth has closed,
it enters the ear and leaves a permanent impression,
it seeds the ground of everything that grows.
This is why they fear the spoken truth—
because it cannot be recalled or stopped,
because once the true thing has been given voice
the silence that contained it has been dropped.
Speak. Speak the necessary, difficult thing.
The freedom to speak is the first freedom given.
Those who were silenced fought to give you this:
the word that, once released, is forever living.
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A word, once spoken, cannot be unspoken—
it lives in the air after the mouth has closed,
it enters the ear and leaves a permanent impression,
it seeds the ground of everything that grows.
This is why they fear the spoken truth—
because it cannot be recalled or stopped,
because once the true thing has been given voice
the silence that contained it has been dropped.
Speak. Speak the necessary, difficult thing.
The freedom to speak is the first freedom given.
Those who were silenced fought to give you this:
the word that, once released, is forever living.
