“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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Audre Lorde 72
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“We're fine together, just like this: Our silence protects us from ourselves”
Source: The Attack

“The dignity of mankind is in your hands; protect it!
It sinks with you! With you it will ascend.”
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.”
Source: The Quiet American

Address to the court in People v. Lloyd (1920)