There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the de…

Arundhati Roy
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There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard. ✨ Arundhati Roy (2006). Ordinary Person's Guide To Empire, p.330, Penguin Books India
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There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard. ✨ Arundhati Roy (2006). Ordinary Person's Guide To Empire, p.330, Penguin Books India

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