Misquoted by Diane S. Dew http://www.dianedew.com/sanger.htm (2001)
Omits words from a letter to Dr. Clarence Gamble Sanger proposing the "Negro Project", where Sanger wrote: "And <span style="color:darkgray">we do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population,</span> and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea <span style="color:darkgray">if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.</span>"
The quote was similarly misused in "Women, Race, & Class" (12 February 1983) by Angela Davis, where it is implied that that Sanger was organizing an extermination campaign and the minister would be the main propaganda milling machine.
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“We do not stray out of all words into the ever silent”
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The Gardener http://www.spiritualbee.com/love-poems-by-tagore/ (1915)
Context: We do not stray out of all words into the ever silent;
We do not raise our hands to the void for things beyond hope.
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Rabindranath Tagore 178
Bengali polymath 1861–1941Related quotes
“All we can ever do is lay a word in the hands of those who have put one in ours.”
Galatea 2.2
Source: Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics
“Although the stars do not speak, even in being silent they cry out.”
“The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent.”
Cited in: Karen Offord. Dare to Dream: Your Journey of a Lifetime, 2014, p. 115.
“Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.”