The Right to Speak... Listen... voices present and past

I declare the Right to Listen.

As we can speak, we can listen.

No speech exists without a listener.
But listening goes beyond speech---listening is paying attention.

Sometimes, in this blog, I refer to voices from history. Sometimes it helps to listen to these voices of the past. As a historian, I know the past can become a tool to the future. Examining the past can become an action that propels us forward. So often, I refer to events or writings of past centuries. There are many thinkers who precede me. They are my forefathers and foremothers, an ancestry of knowledge and experience. Let us listen. Hear their voices echo through the centuries.

Listening is not the same as hearing.
We do not need ears to listen.
We can listen by observing, feeling, paying attention,
or even by reading, in the case of voices from the past.


Revision thanks to commenter:  BRM.