Thursday, October 15, 2015

speaking in a story

speaking in a story
a fiction of his making
using metaphor, allegory
to speak truth to power
risking everything
his life, his freedom
exiled for speaking out
for speaking in a story

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October 16, 2015
speaking in a story

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
using the book, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
to expose the Soviet Gulag System
Blog Action Day 2015 – “Raise Your Voice”
October 16, 2015

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