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Silence is the first thing within the power of the enslaved to shatter. From that shattering, everything else spills forth.

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Robin Morgan
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: January 29
Activist
Actor
Editor
Feminist
Journalist
Novelist
Poet
Political Scientist
Writer
Lake Worth Beach
Florida
Robin Evonne Morgan
Power
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Enslaved
Everything
Spills
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Oppression
Thing
Forth
Silence
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Else
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