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International Women's Day

Thursday, March 8, 2018

The Future is Purple  

The "Blogging Circle of Friends "  prompt for Day 1939
Have fun with these words writing a blog entry, story or poem. integration, limited, sensitive, item, scream, withdraw

The cries and screams of girls,
future women,
reverberate across the planet
because they are deprived
of an education.

The choices
of uneducated women
are limited,
and their children,
their families,
suffers because
they are disenfranchised.

The success
of the family,
of the nation,
and of civilization
depends on the integration
of women
into every level
of citizenship.

Men need to understand,
be sensitive
to the fact
that their wives
are the first teachers
of their sons,
and to have strong sons
they need educated women.

In this century
we cannot close our eyes
to the plight
of women and girls
across the Earth;
to do this
is to withdraw
into a shell of darkness,
ignoring the needs
of the nation and the world.

The first item
on the To Do List
for the Twenty-First Century
is to speak out
against the injustices perpetrated
against women
on the local,
national,
and international levels.

The "Blog City ~ Every Blogger's Paradise"  prompt for Day 1542
"Saying nothing sometimes says the most." Emily Dickinson Do you agree?

The only time silence, or "saying nothing" is appropriate is when you are confronted with grief (either your own or someone elses). In this situation, it is better to say nothing than to say something inappropriate or stupid. When confronted with an injustice, a person should not be silent. For too long women have been told to remain silent about the inappropriate conduct of their male, or even female, work associates and/or family members. We women have to speak up about the injustice suffered by ourselves and our sisters across the planet, because if we remain silent those injustices will continue.