So it is better to speak, remembering we were never meant to survive.
It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
Because the machine will try to grind you into dust anyway, whether or not we speak.
There is no Hierarchy of Oppressions
It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.