Journal #12 2/21/06
Read the following quote and respond by either analyzing what is being said or reflecting personally through your own experience. Please answer with three or more sentences.
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.Alice Walker
posted by Mark Rounds at 6:37 AM
11 Comments:
i like this quote i think it means if someone loses your trust they are ot a friend.. if someone trys to boss you around they're not your friend. A friend ship should be equal not unfair.
This quote is very strong because people in SPA go around calling each other their friends and don't really know what that means. A friend is someone who will help you grow instead of keep you down. But it just seems that everyone wants to be liked because they have a fear of being disliked. In my personal opinion it is better not to beliked for being me than to be liiked for acting like someone else
MONISHA NEWBON
this quote is very true but some people refuse to beleve it. what she implies in her statement describes a friend that is not true! no true friend would want to be as cruel to try to keep their friend quiet!!
DAMN STRAIGHT! If someone thinks that what you say is nonsense and you have no right to speak, then they are not friend that I would have. I mean, if you speak nonsense all day that's one thing, but if they ask you how your day was and you begin by saying "well it was," but suddenly they cut you off and tell you you're stoooopid, well that's just plain mean.
she is saying don't trust no one who makes u act against ur will. if one tells you you can not advance, they obviously don't want the best for u
that people who don't want you to talk but to just follow are not your friends. they just want you to follow them to make them powerful instead of you speaking out and bring them down.
THIS IS VERY TRUE. ANYONE WHO IS YOUR FRIEND SHOULD NOT BELITTLE YOU OR TELL YOU TO BE SOMEONE YOUR NOT. DOING SO WILL NOT HELP YOU GROW AS A PERSON, AS YOUR OWN PERSON.
-PEACE OUT
Real people, especially true "friends", are open to opinions other than their own. They would never demand silence from a fellow friend. On a side note, what bugs me is when people let their voices go unheard because they might get in trouble for saying something authority might not like. That happens here on campus with a frequency that is sad. They shut up because they might get in trouble. For me, if I KNOW that I'm right, I will let people know, and if I get in trouble for it, THEY are the worse person for it. This fact alone is enough to satisfy me.
A healthy friendship is one in which you can express yourself freely and learn to grow as an individual. If a friend cannot accept you as you are and allow you to be your own person, then you were never really good friends to begin with. It's sometimes difficult to be a good friend when you're not exactly sure what it entails, but you should keep in mind that you cannot be a good friend without being true to yourself
IN OTHER WORDS IT IS SAYING THAT IF SOMEONE GOES AGAINST YOUR WILL THEY ARE NOT YOUR FRIEND.
i think that the quote talks abut how you should'nt really trust people and even if they are your friends, so if they are going against your right to grow and understand you, then why bother with that person.
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