“Your silence will not protect you.”
essay "The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action", in Sister Outsider
Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
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Glenn Beck (1964) U.S. talk radio and television host
The Reshaping and Redefining of America
Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine
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“We're fine together, just like this: Our silence protects us from ourselves”
Yasmina Khadra (1955) Algerian writer
Source: The Attack
“The dignity of mankind is in your hands; protect it!
It sinks with you! With you it will ascend.”
Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright
Der Menscheit Würde ist in Eure Hand gegeben, bewahret Sie!
Sie sinkt mit euch! Mit euch wird sie sich heben!
Die Künstler (The Artists)
Variant translation: The dignity of mankind is in your hands, preserve it!
“So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.”
Graham Greene book The Quiet American
Source: The Quiet American
Clarence Darrow (1857–1938) American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union
Address to the court in People v. Lloyd (1920)
