When the men are silent, it is our duty to raise our voices in behalf of our ideals.
Interpretation
We must speak up for our beliefs when others are not.
This quote emphasizes the importance of advocacy and speaking out, particularly when those who hold similar ideals are silent. It calls on individuals to take responsibility for voicing their values and beliefs, especially in times of oppression or neglect.
In practice
In a community meeting about social justice, this quote can inspire attendees to speak up for what they believe in.
In individual industries where female labour pays an important role, any movement advocating better wages, shorter working hours, etc., would not be doomed from the start because of the attitude of those women workers who are not organized.
For reforms ameliorate the situation of the working class, they lighten the weight of the chains labour is burdened with by capitalism, but they are not sufficient to crush capitalism and to emancipate the workers from their tyranny.
When the men kill, it is up to us women to fight for the preservation of life.
Each reform, therefore, improving the economical and political situation of the workers proves to be an arm that increases the energy with which the proletarian struggle of classes is fought.
The socialist parties of all countries are duty bound to fight energetically for the implementation of universal women's suffrage which is to be vigorously advocated both by agitation and by parliamentary means. When a battle for suffrage is conducted, it should only be conducted according to socialist principles, and therefore with the demand of universal suffrage for women and men.
In the women's world, as well as in the men's world, there exists the class law and the class struggle, and it appears as fully established that sometimes between the socialist working women and those belonging to the middle class, there may be antagonisms.
It's true my father abused me and didn't love and protect me the way he should have, and at times it seemed no one would ever help me and it would never end. But God always had a plan for my life, and He has redeemed me.
It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.
If a fear cannot be articulated, it can't be conquered.
Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.
So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America.
I think nowadays it's so easy as an athlete to become a statistic whether or not you lose everything or having trouble or whatever it may be.
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