Quotes about Silenced

He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.

had silenced His followers and teaching once and for all. Yet here were former cowards boldly declaring His name and message. Not only were their words making an impact, but who could argue with the miracles that accompanied the preaching?

There is a special grief felt by the children and grandchildren of those who were forbidden to read, forbidden to question or to know.

We must never allow the voice of humanity within us to be silenced. It is humanity's sympathy with all creatures that first makes us truly human.

He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled dreams of an inarticulate lifetime.

But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.

Where there is no speech we must live in despair. And exile is first of all where our speech has been silenced and God's speech has been banished. But the prophetic poet asserts hope precisely in exile.