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dear_mun2013-02-16 06:05 pm
solo_patria) wrote in dear_mun2013-02-16 06:05 pm
Entry tags:
Sorry I'm Not Sorry
Madame Secretary-
Of course I have no doubts that my actions were the proper ones, whether at the barricade in the memory I've regained or on my blog this weekend. I have acted within the confines of my conscience both with Le Cabuc and what I was forced to do, though I did not like it or enter into it lightly, and within the post I've made to my blog on what we must do when wielding love.
Should I have regrets or fears that I've scared someone, should I fear the repercussions of expressing something I know to be true? Should I stay silent when the message is one that others in this world still need to hear? Because I do not, and I will not and I shall continue speaking, writing, doing all else that I do, meaning every word I say, and will be prepared to stand beside it whatever comes.
If others feel challenged or threatened by my views, so much the better. Let them see those views, let them examine and discuss them. At the least the point will be considered, even in dissension. Through that dissension, perhaps another will be reached, will call things into question, will lead to that discussion of the better world.
I take my chance and stake my claim on that and can never regret those things. I take on responsibility for all that I have said, and done, and find that my conscience is free. I do apologize if yours is burdened for me, but I can never carry that, and will not have you ask me to.
In other matters, thank you for the memory of how much my friends mean to me, which I sometimes lose sight of here. I am now prepared, of course, to accept Courfeyrac's apology when he chooses to offer it.
-A. Enjolras
Of course I have no doubts that my actions were the proper ones, whether at the barricade in the memory I've regained or on my blog this weekend. I have acted within the confines of my conscience both with Le Cabuc and what I was forced to do, though I did not like it or enter into it lightly, and within the post I've made to my blog on what we must do when wielding love.
Should I have regrets or fears that I've scared someone, should I fear the repercussions of expressing something I know to be true? Should I stay silent when the message is one that others in this world still need to hear? Because I do not, and I will not and I shall continue speaking, writing, doing all else that I do, meaning every word I say, and will be prepared to stand beside it whatever comes.
If others feel challenged or threatened by my views, so much the better. Let them see those views, let them examine and discuss them. At the least the point will be considered, even in dissension. Through that dissension, perhaps another will be reached, will call things into question, will lead to that discussion of the better world.
I take my chance and stake my claim on that and can never regret those things. I take on responsibility for all that I have said, and done, and find that my conscience is free. I do apologize if yours is burdened for me, but I can never carry that, and will not have you ask me to.
In other matters, thank you for the memory of how much my friends mean to me, which I sometimes lose sight of here. I am now prepared, of course, to accept Courfeyrac's apology when he chooses to offer it.
-A. Enjolras