1. No one was angry enough to speak out. – Inscription on an Egyptian pyramid, quoted by Robert F Kennedy
2. Silence is the voice of complicity. – American saying
3. Open your mouth, judge righteously, maintain the rights of the poor and needy. – Bible, Proverbs 31:9
4. There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. – Eli Wiesel
5. We who have a voice must speak for the voiceless. – Archbishop Oscar Romero
6. The polite conspiracy of silence that has tended to prevail in the last quarter century in Washington. – James Reston
7. He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers. – Charles Peguy
8. In Germany they came first for the Communist, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist. Then they came for the Jews and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up because I was Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up. – Martin Niemoeller
9. Silence is the first thing within the power of the enslaved to shatter. From that shattering, everything else spills forth. – Robin Morgan
10. It is impossible to remain silent in the face of tyranny with, by this very act of silence, becoming an agent of that tyranny. – Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
11. The true crime, the collective, general crime of almost all Germans of that time [i.e. Nazi period] was that of lacking the courage to speak. – Primo Levi
13. The day we see truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die. – Martin Luther King
14. I may be arrested, I may be tried and thrown into jail, but I never will be silent. – Emma Goldman
15. Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly. – Mohandas Gandhi
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