Quotes About Silenced

There are certain things you must not say in spite of the fact that supposedly democracy means free speech. No. You are not allowed free speech. If you speak freely, you are then deemed as I was, to be a subversive.

Having the right to show up and speak are basic to survival, to dignity, and to liberty. I'm grateful that, after an early life of being silenced, sometimes violently, I grew up to have a voice, circumstances that will always bind me to the rights of the voiceless.

We often say silenced, which presumes someone attempted to speak. In my case, it wasn't a silencing because no speech was stopped; it never started, or it had been stopped so far back I don't remember how it happened. It never occurred to me to speak to the men who pressured me then, because it didn't occur to me that I had the authority to assert myself thus or that they had any obligation or inclination to respect my assertions, or that my words would do anything but make things worse.

So #MeToo was not the beginning of women speaking up, but of people listening, and even then—as we've seen in the case of Christine Blasey Ford, testifying against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh—continuing to be silenced. Just as Gerard Baker did, for changing the story about the Battle of Little Bighorn, Blasey Ford received death threats. One measure of how much power these voices and stories have is how frantically others try to stop them.

Until the lion learns how to write, every story will glorify the hunter

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The Germans were victims of the Nazis too, but one can't say that too loudly, of course.

The voice of woman has been silenced in the state, the church, and the home, but man cannot fulfill his destiny alone, he cannot redeem his race unaided.

Most people go to their grave with their music inside them.

She was lost now, she'd been silenced- another dead branch on Cordova's warped tree.

We often fear to say what is true. Our tongues are tied by the beliefs of the society.

Once you become an immigrant, the first thing that is taken from you is the opportunity to talk about politics and to talk about yourself as a political being.

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

The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women.

They approach most issues with equal certainty and zeal. Theirs is the only legitimate position, so all opposition must be silenced in proceeding to the mandated, top-down solution. Often superficially appealing, their causes are always billed as urgent. Remember their passion for the homeless? Why do we hear so little from Democrats on the issue now, when homelessness is rising sharply in deep-blue states like California and in other major cities under Democratic control?

Recorded history is wrong. It's wrong because the voiceless have no voice in it.

Not being heard is no reason for silence.

My throat feels hard and swollen, as if bulky words are trying to choke me.

But the American public never did, because Elizebeth wasn't allowed to speak.

By any measure, Elizebeth was a great heroine of the Second World War. The British knew it. The navy knew it. The FBI knew it. But the American public never did, because Elizebeth wasn't allowed to speak.

He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled dreams of an inarticulate lifetime.

The problem with Muslim women is less that we cannot speak the language, but that no one listens to us.

Slavery is something that is all too often swept under the carpet.

And art made tongue-tied by authority.