I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Stone urges young women to recognize the cost of their current freedoms. Public speech was earned through sacrifice.
- In plain terms
- Young women should realize their right to speak publicly was bought with hard struggle by those before them.
- What can you take from it?
- Value rights by understanding their price.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What is owed to past activists?
- How do you honor sacrifice?
Another view
Gratitude should not limit necessary critique or action.
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