I came to think about a topic, Freedom to speak after reading 'Freedom From Fear' speech by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, a Burmese politician, diplomat, and author and winner of Nobel Peace Prize. The summary of the speech is that calling on the lessons learned from previous non-violent movements, Freedom From Fear' pays tribute to the epic courage and monumental power of spirit in Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and her supporters around the world who have sacrificed their own lives, families, and freedoms in pursuit of democracy and human rights. I will tell about my opinions why freedom to speak is important to everyone in this post.
Every people is speaking about somethings. But are they telling the truth or are they hiding their speech? Sometimes they speak about their business, relationship and social environment. So, people have to concern about the freedom to speak as they always communicate in their society. What is the freedom to speak? Freedom to speak is the state of being free to speak without fear, insecurity and shy. Thus, when speaking, people are hiding their truth because of their fear, insecurity and shy. While we will throw away our fear, insecurity and shy, we could speak freely. First, fear is the most important thing to stop hiding their speech. Fear comes from the worry of something bad or unpleasant. Why do we fear when something bad will happen? May be people are afraid of losing their lives or may be afraid of losing their position. Either losing their lives or their position make them fear. The result is that people could not speak freely to express their thoughts. In “Freedom from Fear” novel, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi said, “We live in interesting times. A climate of fear allows the corrupt and the cruel to continue with President U Nay Win’s ways of repression and oppression. Burmese need to take up our cudgels, rise up and break the chains of fear which bind us. Revolutionize our mind! Free the spirit!”. This speech was given to Burmese who were under controlled by the unfair government. But this speech is vital for all because fear allows us to stop telling the truth. For example, imagine that a child doesn’t want to study a lesson, but his parent beat him instead of explaining why studying a lesson is important for his life as he don’t want to do. Then, that child will only get fear instead of knowing why studying is important. As the result, that child will lie to his parents when he didn’t study. A little fear will start giving him as a liar. Imagine if the situation is changed as his parents don’t beat him and explain the importance of learning, that little child will understand and speak the truth without fear. Secondly, another situation why people couldn’t speak the truth is because of their insecurity. Imagine a person knows that he will lose his family or land when he tells the truth. In this situation, if we are in the place of that person, would we also tell the truth? Thus, insecurity of a person makes the failure to speak freely. So, everybody should have freedom to speak, write or express his thoughts or emotions fairly. Nowadays, human rights are appeared to solve the insecurity of people. Women from elder days were looked down as they are weak or they are not as important as men. When women were pressured, they became lack of confident and lost their faith. Their only duty is to give birth and to do housework. Why couldn’t women have same rights as men? Women did their housework while men were working. The main reason is that women felt the fear, lack of confident and loss of faith to speak up the truth. When women threw away their fear and insecurity, they fought for them to have the freedom to speech. Hillary Clinton, the first female candidate of the Democratic Party for President of the United States in the 2016 election, encouraged to all women that “Human rights are women’s rights and women’s rights are human rights once and for all”. Now, it is time to raise the freedom to speak for all people including women. When women are able to speak freely, the result is that they can raise their children to speak the truth as mothers are the first teacher for all child. In conclusion, in order to speak freely, people should throw away their fear and insecurity and get their strong confident and faith because that things will knock us down and let us face the difficulties in our societies. For example, if a girl was raped but she was fear and worry that people in her society will look down as she was raped, she would not have spoken the truth that she was bullied. When all people have a fair chance to speak their thoughts, people will respect each other’s thought and situation and they have a chance to share their problems and stresses will be left from our mind. Together we strong when we speak the truth and divided we fall when we hide our truth and lie to each other.
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