Because speaking is to open up your lives to one another

Because so many things are running through your mind right now that it’s bound to come off the wrong way

Because “your word is your bond” and you don’t want to offend others by not living up to it

Because you generalize so much that you’ll probably just end up contradicting yourself in the long run

Because everyone thinks you’re a certain way and have certain precepts for certain circumstances

Because you don’t want people to think you speak for all [insert a common classification of race, ethnicity, gender, orientation, credence, or socioeconomic status that society has bound you to].

Because it feels as though it has all been said. No matter how hard you’ve had it by swallowing your personal objections, someone else is probably suffering twice as much from another person who could not contain her sharpest words

Because whoever “they” are, they want you to forget this ever happened

Because whoever “they” are, they don’t want you to be misrepresented

Because anyone and everyone that you will ever be could hang by the thread of what you speak aloud now

Because the future is worth more than a spillage of phrases and futile aggressions

Because it is time to act towards tolerance and away from indifference

Because it is time to act, unify and heal

Because it is time to act.