Quotes About Silence And Oppression

#1. The lesson we are indebted to Egypt for, our future generations learned that in the face of oppression silence is never golden.

Aysha Taryam

#2. Are we friends? or are we foes? ... That kind of thing ... You decide ... For yourselves!!!

Eiichiro Oda

#3. I do this because I'm an observer of people. That's why I want to be an actor. I'm fascinated by human beings and the circumstances they find themselves in.

Charlize Theron

#4. You hurt my feelings." He shoots me a wounded look.
"I wasn't aware that you had any.

Alyson Noel

#5. The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#6. Those who speak largely of the human condition are usually those most exempt from its oppressions - whether of sex, race, or servitude.

Adrienne Rich

#7. For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence; for thus it is better secured from the oppression of the ruling powers, and because this secrecy gives a greater zest to the whole.

Adam Weishaupt

#8. The ability to understand and deliver comedy and tragedy is extremely rare in one composer.

Signe Baumane

#9. In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.

Adrienne Rich

#10. As a system, patriarchy encourages men to accept male privilege and perpetuate women's oppression, if only through silence.

Allan G. Johnson

#11. That you will become entrapped in someone else's recent careless thoughts.

Jaron Lanier

#12. Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.

J.K. Rowling

#13. Let Go and Let God...

Bill Wilson

#14. Human beings have capitalized on the silence of animals, just as certain human beings have historically imposed silence on certain other human beings by denying slaves the right to literacy, denying women the right to own property, and denying both the right to vote.

Gary Steiner

#15. P15 - Our advanced technological society is rapidly making objects of us and subtly programming us into conformity to the logic of its system to the degree that this happens, we are also becoming submerged in a new "Culture of Silence".

Paulo Freire

#16. The process of acting, not necessarily the business of acting, but the actual doing of it in the moment is my greatest kind of personal passion, the thing that brings me alive the most. Also, my two children.

Grant Bowler

#17. Every woman should own a shirtdress

Michael Kors

#18. If you see oppression, violence, injustice and evil deeds, unzip your silence and uncaring indifference, do something and act against all these unethical instances." ~ Angelica Hopes, an excerpt from my novel, If I Could Tell You

Angelica Hopes

#19. Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen De Monteflores

#20. My belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators ... I think it will go relatively quickly, ... [in] weeks rather than months.

Dick Cheney

#21. If we're picking people to draw out of their own conscience and experience a 'new' Constitution, we should not look principally for good lawyers. We should look to people who agree with us. When we are in that mode, you realize we have rendered the Constitution useless.

Antonin Scalia