Silenced Quotes

• How many are silenced, because in order to get to their art they would have to scream?

  

  Anne Clark
  • Art
  • Scream
  • Silenced

• The passion you forbade my lips to utter Will not be silenced. You must hear it in The sullen thunders when they roll and mutter: And when the tempest nears, with wail and din, I know your calm forgetfulness is broken, And to your heart you whisper, "He has spoken."

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Heart
  • Passion
  • Broken

• Slavery is wrong. If Slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and Constitutions against it, are themselves wrong, and should be silenced, and swept away.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Slavery
  • Constitution
  • Silenced

• The thirst for something other than what we have…to bring something new, even if it is worse, some emotion, some sorrow; when our sensibility, which happiness has silenced like an idle harp, wants to resonate under some hand, even a rough one, and even if it might be broken by it.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Sorrow
  • Thirst
  • Resonate

• Well, the tyranny of masculinity and the tyranny of patriarchy I think has been much more deadly to men than it has to women. It hasn’t killed our hearts. It’s killed men’s hearts. It’s silenced them, it’s cut them off.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Hearts
  • Tyranny
  • Masculinity

• I am not scared, I will not be silenced, and I will continue to take to the streets and criticise any wrong doing that I see.

  

  Asmaa Mahfouz
  • Streets
  • Criticise
  • Silenced