An d has it cost you anything?
Caught in between identit ies
Has your privilege kept your eyes shut?
It will cost you your fear,
Your com fort of illusion
and your privileged birthright
Ending oppression, right now is the time
A small price to pay for the others
who have lost their lives
In words of my fellow American,
I'm going to make it plain.
In 1877, America put laws in place
called the Jim Crow Laws,
restricted the rights to quadroons,
Hispanics, Indians, Malays.
restricted relationships,
restricted education, restricted life.
It told us that we were less than,
and it came on the heels of the
I think can be greatly described
And what he said about time is,
I'm not ready to wait 100 to 200 years
That I think actually that time is neutral.
That it can either be used
constructively or destructively.
rarely rolls in on inevitability.
It is through human dedication
And then when we don't work,
what happens is that time
An d the guardians of the status quo
are in their oxygen tanks
keeping the old order alive.
And so the time needs to be helped
And the reason why these Jim
that stifled my rights and your rights
is because we fell asleep.
We fall asleep when we're moving ahead
and we don't look to the left and right
and see that we're not including people
Because really at the end of the day,
when it doesn't cost us anything.
But I'm here today saying that no one
unless it costs you something.
will be sexually assaulted
before she reaches the age of 18.
If you are a woman of color
before you reach the age of 18,
then you are 66 % more likely to be
sexually assaulted again.
70 % of girls who are sex trafficked
They are coming out of the
They are coming out of poverty.
It is a billion dollar industry.
not just for the Me Too's,
because I want the Me Too's.
But when I raise my hand,
I am aware of all the women
who are still in silence.
The women who are faceless.
The women who don't have the money,
and don't have the constitution,
and who don't have the confidence,
and who don't have the images
that gives them a sense of self -worth
enough to break their silence
that's rooted in the stigma of assault
written on the Statue of Liberty is come
Come, you tireless, poor,
yearning to breathe free,
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