Daily Inspiration Quote by Jaha Dukureh

There is a hard-earned pragmatism in Dukureh's phrasing: "the only way" isn't rhetorical flourish so much as a survival math she has done repeatedly. She names "culture of silence" as the real infrastructure sustaining harmful practices, shifting the target from individual villains to a social system that recruits everyone through shame, fear, and the promise of belonging. The verb choice matters. She doesn't say "debate" or "raise awareness"; she says "break". Silence isn't politely lifted, it's shattered.

The quote also reveals the personal cost embedded in that strategy. "I felt like" is not hedging; it's a small window into vulnerability, the admission that speaking out begins as an internal argument before it becomes a public stance. When she says "these practices", she gestures to things many communities treat as unspeakable precisely because naming them threatens family honor, religious authority, and gendered expectations. In that sense, her voice isn't just an opinion; it's an act of disobedience against the rules that govern who gets to speak.

The second move is equally deliberate: "encouraging other people to do so". This is activism as contagion, not charisma. She refuses the lone-hero narrative and instead describes a chain reaction, where testimony makes more testimony possible. The subtext is strategy: institutions can ignore one person as an outlier, but they struggle against a chorus. By centering speech as action, Dukureh frames liberation not as a private awakening but as a collective breach in the wall that kept harm normal.