Human existence cannot be Silent, nor can it be nourished by false words, but only by true words, with which men and women transform the world. To exist, humanly, is to name the world, to change it. Once named, the world in its turn reappears to the namers as a problem and requires of them a new naming. Human beings are not built in silence,3 but in word, in work, in action-reflection.
This quote is definitely my favorite in the entire passage. It describes to me how the world is right now and what it is transitioning into. Silence is submission in the face of adversity, making change starts with a voiced idea and turns into actions. The second part about false words reminds me of the way that false news or lies prevails in making a toxic environment. The last sentence is about humans being built in word, work, and in action- reflection and in my life I've found all three of those statements to be true. This quote reminds me of Prison's are Obsolete because it talks about people being silenced and the women and men in the American prison system are completely silenced.