Quotes About Voiceless

The Silent majority is silent, and that is best for everybody.

I am the dumb, the wild, the things now dead / That men have killed for being mute and strange

The dead are silenced and the living are speechless.Who's going to tell their stories if I don't?

For the horrors of the American Negro's life there has been almost no language.

Dead women tell no tales. Sad men write them down.

Men meet a woman who's mute, they take advantage of her. Never once on a date did a man ever try to communicate, not really. They just grabbed, and took, as if she, voiceless as an animal, was an animal. This is better. The man from the dream, hazy as he is, is better.

The bright stars fade. A voiceless song sang from within, singing: the morn is breaking.

rule number one for all American women: You are to be seen and felt, but not heard. Listen and do as you are told and everything will be all right.

Women are important in the Pre-Raphaelite movement. But while their faces are seen everywhere- in oil paintings, watercolours, drawings, - their voices are never heard.

We continue, however, to write about important people, prize-winning people, blacks of grandeur, women of great fire, fame or wit. We do not write about ordinary people.

Have you noticed that they write parts for mute women but not for mute men? It must be a masculine dream: a woman who can feel and hear but not talk!

The institutions of human society treat us as parts of a machine. They assign us ranks and place considerable pressure upon us to fulfill defined roles. We need something to help us restore our lost and distorted humanity. Each of us has feelings that have been suppressed and have built up inside. There is a voiceless cry resting in the depths of our souls, waiting for expression. Art gives the soul's feelings voice and form.

He who cannot take sides should keep silent.

i speak for none of you now,all you plotters of perfect crimes,nor for me, nor for anyone.i speak for those who can't speak,for the deaf and dumb witnesses,for otters and seals,for the ancient owls of the earth.

Dead women tell no tales. Sad men write them down.

The least I can do is speak out for the hundreds of chimpanzees who, right now, sit hunched, miserable and without hope, staring out with dead eyes from their metal prisons. They cannot speak for themselves.

At some point or another, everyone has felt unseen and unheard and marginalized.

SHOW THE WORLD YOUR STRONG COMPASSION: GIVE YOUR VOICE TO VOICELESS YAZIDI GIRLS!

If I lost the ability to speak, what would my life be saying?

He who hides his madman dies voiceless.

Pain is very often a maimed creature without a mouth.

We had to be seen because we couldn't be heard.

Johnny Cash was the champion of the voiceless, the underdogs and the downtrodden. He was also something of a holy terror, like Abraham Lincoln with a wild side. He represented the best of America.

No horror on earth or elsewhere could equal watching your own offspring open his mouth and have nothing come out.