Silence Abuse Quotes

#1. The advantage of beating a mute is he can't tell on you.

Thomas Harris

#2. While my sister and I were reminded we did not cause this pain, it was knowing that because we broke our silence about what had been done to us, our parents were hurting. That knowledge was hard on us.

Erin Merryn

#3. Abuse exists because of secrecy. If I can use this platform and talk about it and break the silence, somebody can get the help and support they need. It's such a common problem, and it doesn't need to be. All you have to do is talk about it and break the silence.

Chris Witty

#4. Sometimes a people lose their right to remain silent when pressured to remain silent.

Criss Jami

#5. Meekness is marked by silence in the face of abuse and infamy, by submission to God's way, which is higher than our way as heaven is higher than the earth, by submissiveness to others for their welfare. It is the source of inexpressible joy and contentment.

V. Raymond Edman

#6. Because it is so hard, some people wait until they are in their thirties, forties, fifties, or even older before breaking their silence.

Erin Merryn

#7. There are tons of kids out there who endure chronic abuse and suffer in silence. They can't trust anyone, they can't tell anyone, and they have no idea how to get away from it.

C. Kennedy

#8. When kindness comes at the expense of truth, it is not a kindness worth having. And when generosity leads to silence or abuse, it is not a generosity worth giving.

Rachel Simmons

#9. Silence, too, can be torture.

Justina Chen

#10. Abuse of any kind thrives off secrecy. I felt like if I started talking about it, maybe other people would. I wanted to break the silence. Now I feel I'm in a much better place emotionally than I've ever been anytime in my life.

Chris Witty

#11. The purpose of the book is to break the silence and stigma surrounding sexual abuse and to educate the public on how they can be greater advocates for victims. As a people, a nation and a society, we all have a part to play in curbing this issue.

Michelle Alexander

#12. Woe to him who offends a patient man who has just reached his limit.

Joyce Rachelle

#13. They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak; They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing, and abuse, Rather than in silence shrink From the truth they needs must think; They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.

James Russell Lowell

#14. In the end, it was the secrets that held me hostage and fuelled my depression, but, once released, emancipation - from fear, shame, guilt and judgement - was finally possible.

B.G. Bowers

#15. Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#16. That high pitch scream emitted by Rose made me wince! Her ear bursting howls would stun me into silence as much as it silenced the eldest child in their home, eight-year-old Anna-Marie.

Stephen Richards

#17. I assumed he knew that your coach was abusing you. I realized in the limo that he didn't."
For a moment, there is only silence. When Damien speaks, his words are ice cold. "He knew.

J. Kenner

#18. I lived through this horror, and no one can tell me I have to stay quiet.
"I have been silenced long enough, and I will not allow that family to silence me again. I will continue to speak out and make sure my voice is heard.

Erin Merryn

#19. Who said 'please' that made you hate the word so much?"
Andrew gazed at him in silence for a minute. "I did.

Nora Sakavic

#20. Those who nurse secrets, nurse a chaotic world of amplified silence.

B.G. Bowers

#21. The silence was killing me.
And that's all there ever was. Silence. It was all I knew. Keep quiet. Pretend nothing had happened, that nothing was wrong. And look how well that was turning out.

J. Lynn

#22. Incest, rape and abuse is rampant everywhere, even in our churches, but society is silent. It is a silent epidemic. One in three women will experience a sexual assault in her lifetime and one in six males, yet we don't speak of it, even in our churches!

Diane Chamberlain

#23. Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence.

Samuel Johnson

#24. Religion has the capacity to silence critical thinking and create blindness in entire groups of people. It can infect the minds of followers so completely as to allow the most egregious sexual acts against children and others to go unchallenged for centuries.

Darrel Ray

#25. Though no longer living in silence, I continued to carry pain and memories.

Erin Merryn

#26. Abuse is a parasite that feeds off hate and shame, growing in size and strength with silence.

Nikki Sex