Quotes About Silenced

I always sang in English. It's just that nobody heard me.

rarely treated as the torture victims they really are.

The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.

Perhaps the most important people that I should photograph are the people who don't have a voice.

Those that have a voice have to speak for those of us who are silenced.

While the debate over banned books usually seems to happen just outside the gates of government, it takes on a new danger and urgency when legislators get involved. Their actions cause voices to be silenced both inside and outside the books. That's un-American.

For too many years, those eligible to vote in primary or general elections did not bother to do so. Those sensible centrists who do not go to rallies but care deeply about our country effectively silenced their own voices. That sent the message to incumbents that they were either doing the right thing or that we just did not care.

The kids silenced. OK,' Julia said. Well, as you probably know, I'm Sam's mom. He told me not to make a big deal, so I'll keep this to the essentials. First, I want to let you all know how totally psyched I am to be here with you. Sam closed his eyes, willing himself to unlearn object permanence.

One by one, the remaining Spanish positions were silenced, and by two in the afternoon, the Spanish had surrendered the city.25 Havana—Key to the New World—was now British territory, part of the same empire as the thirteen colonies.

Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail.

The mother I needed to call my mother was silenced before I was born.

But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.

When my mother told me they have to sell me, I couldn't breathe; I couldn't speak.

In this country men can be born and live well and die without ever having to feel much of what makes their ease possible, just because so much is buried

An appeal to me in this fiendish row - is there? Very well; I hear; I admit, but I have a voice too, and for good or evil mine is the speech that cannot be silenced.

I have a voice too, and for good or evil mine is the speech that cannot be silenced.

In this age of censorship, I mourn the loss of books that will never be written, I mourn the voices that will be silenced-writers' voices, teachers' voices, students' voices-and all because of fear.

In this age of censorship I mourn the loss of books that will never be written, I mourn the voices that will be silenced--writers' voices, teachers' voices, students' voices--all because of fear. How many have resorted to self-censorship? How many are saying to themselves, Nope ... can't write about that. Can't teach that book. Can't have that book in our collection. Can't let my student write that editorial in the school paper.

Where there is no speech we must live in despair. And exile is first of all where our speech has been silenced and God's speech has been banished. But the prophetic poet asserts hope precisely in exile.

All of the work dried up after that.... I was shunned. They didn't want to hear the other side.

Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.

An idea so dangerous it can't be discussed. I thought we buried all that nonsense back in the Dark Ages.

The woman's perspective is like the dark side of the moon: it always exists, but it is never exposed, at least not in my culture.

The voices of moderation on both sides had been silenced. With no more opposition from within, American war hawks were free to do as they pleased.