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Quotes About Unheard

What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much - and like so well?
~ Sinclair Lewis
It's the most annoying thing, when you've got the answers, but you're not heard.
~ Alex Hogh Andersen
He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear.
~ George Orwell
Era como un fantasma solitario diciendo una verdad que nadie oiría nunca.
~ George Orwell
People who collect objects of rarity, my dear Eustacie, will often, so I believe, go to quite unheard of lengths to acquire the prize they covet.
~ Georgette Heyer
Fundamentally, one of the things I tend to migrate toward when I'm working is a story about people whose stories aren't told in theater.
~ Thomas Kail
Though if he did say it no one there ever heard him.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it America has failed to hear? ... It has failed to hear that the promises of freedom and justice have not been met. And it has failed to hear that large segments of white society are more concerned about tranquility and the status quo than about justice and humanity.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
A riot is the language of the unheard
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
When you cut facilities, slash jobs, abuse power, discriminate, drive people into deeper poverty and shoot people dead whilst refusing to provide answers or justice, the people will rise up and express their anger and frustration if you refuse to hear their cries. A riot is the language of the unheard.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Living with the daily ugliness of slum life, educational castration and economic exploitation, some ghetto dwellers now and then strike out in spasms of violence and self-defeating riots. A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard. It is the desperate, suicidal cry of one who is so fed up with the powerlessness of his cave existence that he asserts that he would rather be dead than ignored.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Riot is the language of the unheard.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
I contend that the cry of 'Black Power' is, at bottom, a reaction to the reluctance of white power to make the kind of changes necessary to make justice a reality for the Negro. I think that we've got to see that a riot is the language of the unheard. And, what is it that America has failed to hear? It has failed to hear that the economic plight of the Negro poor has worsened over the last few years. — Martin Luther King, Jr., 60 Minutes Interview, 1966
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
L'émeute est le langage de celui qui n'est pas entendu.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is really no such thing as the voiceless. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.
~ Arundhati Roy
But he did not hear us:
~ Atul Gawande
They spoke as if I weren't there.
~ Jojo Moyes
God's greatness is that He hears the unheard.
~ Jonathan Sacks
Most of the time when we do a tune, Bad Blake, it's a tune no one's heard of to begin with.
~ George Thorogood
You have made it abundantly clear in the past that my wishes and my feelings mean nothing to you.
~ Mary Balogh
I'll walk forever with stories inside me that the people I love the most can never hear.
~ Michelle Hodkin
She talks to herself as she hollows out a stoneware bowl. She is saying something about containment. She talks to her dogs and to the chickens. She has said so many things that have gone unheard. Off the record. Mother:
~ Eula Biss
People are hurting, and they feel very disengaged and disenfranchised.
~ Ann Callis
There were no wrestling schools in Ireland. It was completely unheard of.
~ Becky Lynch