An example that just happened upon my mind, in america close to 85 percent of americans enter into plea bargains. Whether innocent or guilty they take a guilty plea which boosts state's conviction rates. The state gets more money. People are being victimized by the law enforcement system, because they won't say no. no i won't take your plea bargain.
There's a movie about a woman who did say no. It's a great movie called American Violet.
no. Simple word posesses so much power. No, when uttered can grant so much respect, emit so much dignity, no is the reaction every enemy hates. If someone wants to argue, and you say "no, no i won't provide you a channel for your negative energies, no you keep them". I swear you can feel them on the verge of exploding or should i say imploding. no. Evil succeeds because we say yes to it. Christiantity teaches us to say yes to it, school conditions us to say yes to it, law enforcement threatens us into saying yes to it, television, movies, music turn us into yes, yes, yes zombies. Yes, I'll buy this. Yes, I'll eat this. Yes we can. Yes I'll do this for my boss even though I don't think it's right I don't think it's fair and even though I don't feel like it because I eat yes foods that don't truly feed my mind and body. Yes, I'll believe what I'm told. Yes, I'll stay where I'm accepted. Yes, I'll gladly pay you later on fand or the rest of my life for an injection of your education today.
but when do we say no. no i won't eat things that leave my body constantly fighting for life. i won't eat things that make me forget what true life is. The life that the Earth was born for. no i won't speak like white people and conduct myself rigidly in order to garner the respect that I should be given as a human being. no i won't take your vaccination, no i won't buy your clothes. i won't buy your cars, and one day i'm not going to buy your food. no, very calmly i say no i won't be a victim. i have always generally been an indivisual who takes responsibility for my actions and recognize those action's consequences as my own. that being said i must say no to what i know is wrong for me for my people for my family for the future, because if i don't there is no one to blame but myself. and i love myself way way too much to burden myself with that blame. people may think i'm weird, look at me like a trouble maker, may shake their heads, may critisize and make fun of me, may frown at me and think me a difficult person, may not want to be my friend, but guess what i don't give a fuck AT ALL anymore, and it's time for me to say no aloud rather than JUST silently through actions. open my mouth and say no to those who are seeking to poison me, seeking to exploit my labor, seeking to titilate then exploit my desire, seeking to keep me dumb in both senses of the word, seeking to make me blind, seeking to make me angry, seeking to make me hopeless, seeking to block this amazing energy that the universe has for me, has for us all. i'm trying to say no till they cut my tongue out. and then i'll use my literacy to write no. use my children to read it. use them to seed it. every revolution every stand against tyranny in america succeeds when the people say no. they stop participating in the system that is oppressing them. an incidence of succesion occured right here not that many years ago. they stood and said no, that stand was so powerful it eventually led to a crazy off the wall bloody war. no, did what no one else could, it ended the most dehumanizing treachorous murderous disrespectful system i have ever READ about. it struck a debilitating blow to a centuries long reign of pure evil. no is what revolutionary armies say. no is what those who create resistances say. the people who build opposition groups and live outside of their societies in mountains, forests, underground or who knows where else are saying no and they're doing it for what they believe in. they're dying. right now today. because they are in that world's minority that says no. whether their stands are construed as good or bad, they make them and they are respected for it. And i can't say a word in criticism toward those who use the complete power of no for evil because i am not using to the full extent of my ability, to the infinite capacity of my bravery the power of no for good nor evil. I've been lost in saying yes for weeks now, and it make me sick to my stomach. Some days i hate myself for giving in, saying yes, to those things i know i should say no to.
no, such a beautiful word. we may not appreciate it's beauty the moment that it is uttered to us, but as a rule i believe we eventually understand and appreciate it.
no i won't be ignorant
no i won't be fat
no i won't be sick
no i won't be hateful
no i won't eat preservatives, i don't care if i never eat cereal again i won't eat poison
What are you saying no to?
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