Quotes about Silencing
The culture of ganging up against one for airing his/her views prevails here in Tamil Nadu.
- Tamilisai Soundararajan
back in the seventies, when women began to straddle chairs and dance crotch out on television, when all the magazines started featuring behinds and inner thighs as though that's all there is to a woman, well, I shut up altogether.
- Toni Morrison
Fear of trouble, present and future, often blinds us to the numerous small blessings we enjoy, silencing our prayers of praise and thanksgiving.
- Anonymous
One of the most disturbing things I discovered in writing this book is that victims of crime who, for whatever reason, are not in favor of the death penalty are routinely marginalized, silenced, and even threatened. When
- Shane Claiborne
We aren't allowed to have any opinions. People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but it doesn't stop you having your own opinion. Even if people are still very young, they shouldn't be prevented from saying what they think.
- Anne Frank
The ultimate form of censorship is assassination.
- George Bernard Shaw
Censorship is the height of vanity.
- Martha Graham
When people are intimidated about having their own opinions, oppression is at hand.
- Jimmy Carter
Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
- Albert Camus
Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.
- GK Chesterton
They - you know, when we walked in - when I walked in with the two white men that had carried me down - and they cursed me all the way down. They would ask me questions, and when I would try to answer, they would tell me to hush.
- Fannie Lou Hamer
If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
- Vincent Van Gogh