Stand up. Speak out.

The powerful control the powerless. The rich control the poor. The free control the enslaved. Those with money control politics. Those with keys control access.

I’ve been thinking a lot about control lately having just experienced its heavy hand. Not in exercising it but in the having it exercised upon me. There’s a Japanese proverb, “the nail that sticks out gets hammered.” Deviance is met with resistance. Voices raised are met with efforts to seize the microphone.

This has not stopped us. This will not stop us.

This is not a threat. This is a promise.