Quotes About Voiceless

If she could breathe then it could be heard, but she was breathless.

There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.

The will of little girls is stifled by Islam. By the time they menstruate they are rendered voiceless. They are reared to become submissive robots who serve in the house as cleaners and cooks. They are required to comply with their father's choice of a mate, and after the wedding their lives are devoted to the sexual pleasures of their husband and to a life of childbearing.

Words hold tremendous power, and if we don't reclaim our language and start seeing people instead of 'militants,' drone victims instead of 'bug splats,' or natural splendor instead of 'green infrastructure,' then the voiceless are destined to be silenced forever.

None but the dead have free speech.

What creature is it that is female in nature and hides in its womb unborn children who, although they are voiceless, speak to people far away? The female creature is a letter. The unborn children are the letters (of the alphabet) it carries. And the letters, although they have no voices, speak to people far away.

All my life I feel like I haven't been heard.

But words are vain; reject them all— They utter but a feeble part: Hear thou the depths from which they call, The voiceless longing of my heart.

When I saw Barbara and Jenna on the sonogram for the first time, there was no doubt in my mind that they were distinct and alive. The fact that they could not speak for themselves only enhanced society's duty to defend them.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: Si nos quitan la libertad de expresión nos quedamos mudos y silenciosos y nos pueden guiar como ovejas al matadero (George Washington)

A riot is the language of the unheard

When people are voiceless, they will have temper tantrums like a child who has not been paid attention to. And riots are massive temper tantrums from a neglected and voiceless people.

Riot is the language of the unheard.

I had a million things to say and none I knew how.

I write to say what I cannot speak

We - that indefinite we - with no name, no party, no argument and no power

It's very important that we give a voice to the voiceless in terms of media; because media is a global phenom and it portrays you dependent upon what controls you have and the writers are doing great work.

In snowbound, voiceless, mountain depths, to herald spring, pine trees sound in tune.

Toto wusste, dass Tiere über die gleiche Intelligenz verfügen wie Menschen und allein durch eine Verkettung unglücklicher evolutionärer Umstände in Körper ohne Stimme und ohne praktische Hände geboren werden.

The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets the fact. When they move their lips no ear perceives any sound. And they themselves soon sink into impotence in the use of language, because of the certainty of not being heard.

Everyone's screaming, I try to make a sound, But no one hears me

I was just a quiet girlfriend who got beat up and told to sit down and shut up.

to men in Jewish and Christian Scriptures, women rarely have speaking parts, and they are not mentioned nearly as often. If they are referenced, they're often unnamed.

Women were supposed to be seen and not heard.