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Quotes About Voiceless

Perhaps the most important people that I should photograph are the people who don't have a voice.
~ Platon
My father was a politician. My grandfather was a politician too, maybe it's an innate idea of representing people that we have in our family. I won't go into politics. I think I can provide the voice for the voiceless through law.
~ Eniola Aluko
Where does discipline end? Where does cruelty begin? Somewhere between these, thousands of children inhabit a voiceless hell.
~ Francois Mauriac
As Americans, we rightfully place tremendous value on having a free and independent press. Our role as journalists is to give voice to the voiceless, and hold our leaders and institutions accountable. But the circle is only completed when that information is consumed by a free-thinking and engaged audience.
~ Lester Holt
Throughout my years championing for civil rights, analyzing politics and advocating on behalf of the voiceless, I am disturbed the most when harmless children suffer because of politics or detrimental policies.
~ Al Sharpton
I love the power of celebrity because you can give voice to the voiceless.
~ Q'orianka Kilcher
The voiceless and most defenseless ones are the animals, so most of my attention goes to them.
~ Joanna Krupa
I don't think any of us could predict Trump. Trump is the stuff of nightmares. But in talking to people, I knew there was a tremendous level of disaffection and anger and sorrow. I know people felt misrepresented and voiceless.
~ Lynn Nottage
In reality, victims of human trafficking are often left voiceless and completely unseen by society.
~ Elise Stefanik
My liberal friends, Congressional Black Caucus members, talk about fighting for the defenseless, the hopeless, and the downtrodden. There is no one more hopeless and voiceless than an unborn baby, but their silence is deafening. I can't hear them. Where are they standing up for their communities, advocating and fighting for their right to life?
~ Sean Duffy
Our obligation to fight pollution traces the roots of its persuasion to that same moral mountaintop from which my father lent his voice to the voiceless. The pursuit of civil equality in health helped build our environmental laws.
~ Martin Luther King III
My books may highlight corruption, brutality and venality, but they also show that if these things come to light, there is rectification. The voiceless do have a voice; democratic mechanisms and accountability do exist.
~ Vikas Swarup
I like movies that resonate, that give voice to the voiceless.
~ Kimberly Elise
Hip-hop is a voice for voiceless poor people.
~ Russell Simmons
How poor this world would be without its graves, without the memories of its mighty dead. Only the voiceless speak forever.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
I felt voiceless for so long, I wasn't ever able to say what I felt out loud. I didn't know how to say it. Posting online presented itself as a comfortable medium. I could say what I wanted to say in a way I still felt comfortable. Whenever, however I wanted to.
~ Rupi Kaur
I was an outsider. I looked different, and I felt really voiceless as a kid.
~ Sabaa Tahir
However much we obfuscate or ignore it, we know that the factory farm is inhumane in the deepest sense of the word. And we know that there is something that matters in a deep way about the lives we create for the living beings most within our power. Our response to the factory farm is ultimately a test of how we respond to the powerless, to the most distant, to the voiceless--it is a test of how we act when no one is forcing us to act one way or another.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Our response to the factory farm is ultimately a test of how we respond to the powerless, to the most distant, to the voiceless - it is a test of how we act when no one is forcing us to act one way or another. Consistency is not required, but engagement with the problem is.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Our response to the factory farm is ultimately a test of how we respond to the powerless, to the most distant, to the voiceless —it is a test of how we act when no one is forcing us to act one way or another.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
The mother I needed to call my mother was silenced before I was born.
~ Adrienne Rich
Dahulu dia selalu katakan apa yang dia pikirkan, tangiskan, apa yang ditanggungkan, teriakan ria kesukaan di dalam hati remaja. Kini dia harus diam- tak ada kuping sudi suaranya.
~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer
As a doctor and father, I often come back to the proverb, 'Speak out on behalf of the voiceless, and for the rights of all who are vulnerable' - and that's how I plan to serve Virginia as governor, too.
~ Ralph Northam
Nature is the realm of the unspeakable. It has no voice of its own, and nothing to say. We experience the unspeakability of nature as its utter indifference to human culture.
~ James P. Carse