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What does it mean?
A plea against violence from the perspective of the marginalized.
In plain terms
Don't fight, we are forgotten anyway.
What can you take from it?
Conflict ignores the vulnerable.

Where it applies

  • protest
  • political commentary
  • refugee crisis

Putting it to work

  • advocating peace
  • highlighting inequality

Questions to consider

  • Who decides who matters?
  • Can silence speak?

Another view

It resigns to being ignored.

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