Words matter. These are the best Silenced Quotes from famous people such as Francis X. Suarez, Charles Simmons, Pope Benedict XVI, Rebecca Solnit, Mike Leach, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Each and every life that has fled communism has proven how the will to pursue democracy and freedom, even in the face of oppression, can never be suppressed or silenced.
Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue.
There are those who would advocate that the voice of religion be silenced, or at least relegated to the purely private sphere.
I’m grateful that, after an early life of being silenced, sometimes violently, I grew up to have a voice, circumstances that will always bind me to the rights of the voiceless.
Those that have a voice have to speak for those of us who are silenced.
Katrina silenced me for two years. I wrote a 12-page essay on my experience in Katrina, and that’s it. I didn’t write anything for, like, two, two and a half years after Katrina hit because it was so traumatic.
People who hate me call me a Twitter troll, which is laughable given my extensive body of work, which you can find on Amazon in the form of books like ‘Gorilla Mindset’ and my documentary on free speech, ‘Silenced.’
Oliver Darcy is a perpetual victim. He is constantly advocating for people to be banned and silenced. As a member of the media, Oliver Darcy should respect our First Amendment right.
If someone doesn’t want to hire me because they think I’m too vocal, fine. I will do a play. I will always find a job. Let them try to get me out of this industry. I am not going to be silenced!
Throughout history, women have often been treated as second-class citizens and their voices silenced.
All the big powers they’ve silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.
The struggle of democratic secularism, religious tolerance, individual freedom and feminism against authoritarian patriarchal religion, culture and morality is going on all over the world – including the Islamic world, where dissidents are regularly jailed, killed, exiled or merely intimidated and silenced.
I might be living in a cardboard box under a freeway overpass, homeless, but I won’t be silenced.
Making people fear the expression of their own power is a very effective way of disempowering them. It is not just those who feel the frustration of being silenced: it also encompasses every person who has no idea of their own power to realise their visions because they have not seen this in action in their communities.
Citizens should never allow themselves to be silenced.
I think to be in exile is a curse, and you need to turn it into a blessing. You’ve been thrown into exile to die, really, to silence you so that your voice cannot come home. And so my whole life has been dedicated to saying, ‘I will not be silenced.’
I’m out there arguing the Labor case. I will do it anywhere and everywhere that I can. I do it within various communities across Australia where I am able to make a positive contribution. And let me tell you, my voice won’t be silenced in the public debate because the issue at stake for Australia are so stark.
Dissent is the highest form of patriotism, and I intend to continue to push my country to respect the rights of all its citizens. I will not be silenced.
Artists are not cheerleaders, and we’re not the heads of tourism boards. We expose and discuss what is problematic, what is contradictory, what is hurtful and what is silenced in the culture we’re in.
I’m exploring the long history of women, first of all, being silenced and, secondly, not being taken seriously in the political and public sphere. It’s a call to action through understanding and through looking at ourselves again and trying to reformulate the whole question of women and power.
I will not be silenced or deterred.
We need to hear stories from older women. There’s a wealth of wisdom and real resilience there, but they’re silenced.
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.
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.
Oppression does not make for hearts as big as all outdoors. Oppression makes us big and small. Expressive and silenced. Deep and dead.
Debate about the causes and consequences of climate change and the policy positions taken in response to it should be encouraged, not silenced.
I am, quite clearly, no fan of PETA or its way of thinking – but that doesn’t mean that I want the group to be silenced. Instead, I have simply done what we all are supposed to have the right to do in this country: to use my own speech to counter what I disagreed with, rather than to move to silence it.
The loudest voice in the room, sometimes, is the absent voice of the silenced.
The contributions of influential African Americans have frequently been ignored, underrepresented, and even silenced.
My voice is not going to be silenced by anybody.
