Quotes About Silenced

For my voice, I have lost it with hollaing and singing of anthems.

Your voice is trapped inside this machine. It's not broken, it's just been sealed off now that it no longer has a purpose.

Words that are not backed up by life lose their weight," Havel wrote, "which means that words can be silenced in two ways: either you ascribe such weight to them that no one dares utter them aloud, or you take away any weight they might have, and they turn into air. The final effect in each case is silence: the silence of the half-mad man who is constantly writing appeals to world authorities while everyone ignores him; and the silence of the Orwellian citizen.

When you have no voice, you don't exist

on leur a coupé le bout de la langue pour qu'ils ne puissent plus chanter le cantique.

The victimization of children is nowhere forbidden; what is forbidden is to write about it.

Women are not allowed truth, not allowed speaking roles, not allowed to be precise.

North Korea is an unimaginable country. We aren't free to sing, say, wear or think what we want.

You can talk about Holocaust denial, but it's really marginal for the most part. What is compelling about the Armenian genocide, is how it has been forgotten.

With the exception of the New York Times, Fox news, and Lou Dobbs of CNN, and talk radio, the rest of the mainstream media has basically been silenced like a bunch of dumb monkeys.

It's not lost on me that every single person who told their story about Harvey Weinstein talked about how they were silenced, how they were encouraged not to speak up, how they were embarrassed or ashamed to speak up.

Col. Shaffer is prohibited by his lawyer from talking. He's at great risk. They want to take away his pay and his health care benefits so they can hold it over his head and not allow him to talk while he's under suspension. This is not America.

allegations of playing the race card and the pressures of political correctness are games of verbal jujitsu used by dominant group members to portray and redefine White talk as the silenced, oppressed, and dissenting voice, while back talk is portrayed as the untouchable incorrect stance that needs to be challenged.

Witnesses like me are invisible to police anyway. Just another fat brown woman with too many dogs. They didn't want my opinion.

Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

About as defiant as a girl can be with her mouth gagged, her arms pinned and her legs spread wide open

Black women have been screaming about famous predators like R&B singer R. Kelly, who allegedly preys on black girls, for well over a decade to no avail.

A great ox stands on my tongue.

Reading Proust nearly silenced Virginia Woolf. She loved his novel, but loved it rather too much. There wasn't enough wrong with it—a crushing recognition when one considers Walter Benjamin's assessment of why people become writers: because they are unable to find a book already written that they are completely happy with. And

Every Black woman in America lives her life somewhere along a wide curve of ancient and unexpressed angers.

I will tell you what she was like. She was like a piano in a country where everyone has had their hands cut off.

Unless you've been touched personally, it's difficult to see, but there are millions of people who have no voice whatsoever.

A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.

The amazing thing now is that most of those so-called critics who were telling me to find my own voice seem to have lost theirs.