Voiceless Quotes

• If you achieve a voice that will be heard, you should use it to speak up for the voiceless and oppressed. If you possess any power or authority, you must strive to use it to help and empower the powerless.

  Craig Murray

  Voice, Empowering, Use

  Craig Murray (2007). “Dirty Diplomacy: The Rough-and-Tumble Adventures of a Scotch-Drinking, Skirt-Chasing, Dictator-Busting and Thoroughly Unrepentant Ambassador Stuck on the Frontline of the War Against Terror”, p.335, Simon and Schuster

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• I am the voice of the voiceless; Through me the dumb shall speak. Till the deaf world's ears be made to hear. The wrongs of the wordless weak. And I am my brothers keeper, And I will fight his fights; And speak the words for beast and bird. Till the world shall set things right.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Inspiring, Brother, Fighting

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox, “Voice Of The Voiceless”

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• We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for the victims of our nation and for those it calls enemy, for no document from human hands can make these humans any less our brothers and sisters.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Brother, Hands, Justice

  Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City

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• There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.

  Arundhati Roy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Feminist

  Arundhati Roy (2006). “Ordinary Person's Guide To Empire”, p.330, Penguin Books India

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• The ones who have a voice must speak for those who are voiceless.

  Oscar Romero

  Voice, Speak, Catholicism

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• When our grandchildren ask us where we were when the voiceless and the vulnerable in our era needed leaders of compassion and purpose, I hope we can say that we showed up, and that we showed up on time.

  Gary Haugen

  Grandchildren, Compassion, Leader

  Gary Haugen, Gregg Hunter (2010). “Terrify No More: Young Girls Held Captive and the Daring Undercover Operation to Win Their Freedom”, p.32, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Through words he gave voice to the voiceless. Through deeds he gave courage to the faint of heart.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Heart, Voice

  Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

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• The victims of social injustice, since time eternal, have always been without the resources and the ability to fight back. They are defenseless and voiceless. Thee sad aspect of social injustice is that the defenseless and voiceless are the ones who most need a defense and a strong, vibrant voice.

  Tommy Makem

  Strong, Fighting, Voice

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My self-imposed mandate is to be the voice for the voiceless.

  Dionne Warwick

  Self, Voice, Mandates

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you've got to find a language. Which goes for film as well as prose, for documentary as well as autobiography. Use the wrong language, and you're dumb and blind.

  Salman Rushdie

  Voice, Giving, Dumb

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• Those of us who have the eyes and ears of the media have a responsibility to amplify the voices of the voiceless.

  Peter Gabriel

  Eye, Responsibility, Voice

  "Peter Gabriel supporting Amnesty during South America tour". Press Release, www.amnesty.org.uk. November 16, 2011.

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• Where does discipline end? Where does cruelty begin? Somewhere between these, thousands of children inhabit a voiceless hell.

  Francois Mauriac

  Children, Discipline, Doe

  "Journal, 1932-1939". Book by François Mauriac, Table ronde, p. 278, 1947.

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• We are behaving like people without compassion and love for the most vulnerable section of society. The children of the universe are without a spokesperson, they are voiceless...We are all touched by the atrocities committed against children: sexual, physical abuse, child slave labor, educational neglect. We feel ashamed. Angry. Appalled. But there is no action...No action.

  Michael Jackson

  Love, Children, Educational

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• My books may highlight corruption, brutality and venality, but they also show that if these things come to light, there is rectification. The voiceless do have a voice; democratic mechanisms and accountability do exist.

  Vikas Swarup

  Book, Light, Voice

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• Be a voice for the voiceless y'all. This world needs more love and hope!

  Taylor York

  Voice, Needs, World

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• I am not anxious to be the loudest voice or the most popular. But I would like to think that at a crucial moment, I was an effective voice of the voiceless, an effective hope of the hopeless.

  Whitney M. Young

  Thinking, Voice, Hopeless

  "Independent Lens (The Powerbroker: Whitney Young's Fight for Civil Rights)". TV Series, www.imdb.com. February 18, 2013.

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• I am the voice of the voiceless.

  CM Punk

  Wwe, Voice

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• Anybody can make a difference and be a voice for the voiceless.

  Zach Hunter

  Voice, Differences, Making A Difference

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• Justice, voiceless, unseen, seeth thee when thou sleepest and when thou goest forth and when thou liest down. Continually doth she attend thee, now aslant thy course, now at a later time. These lines are from a section of doubtful or spurious fragments.

  Aeschylus

  Time, Justice, Lines

  Fragment 253. "Aeschylus, with an English translation by Herbert Weir Smyth". Volume 2, p. 513, archive.org. 1926.

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• Recorded history is wrong. It’s wrong because the voiceless have no voice in it.

  Mary Lee Settle

  Voice

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• The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wisdom, Peace, Kindness

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• To be patriotic is to be able to question government policy in times of crisis. To be patriotic is to stand up for the Bill of Rights and the Constitution in times of uncertainty and insecurity. To be patriotic is to speak up against the powerful in defense of the weak and the voiceless. To be patriotic is to be willing to pay the price to preserve our freedoms, dignity, and rights. To be patriotic is to challenge the abuses of the PATRIOT Act.

  Sami Al-Arian

  Freedom, Powerful, Patriotic

  "Dr. Sami Al-Arian vs Big Brother's 'Ministry of Justice'" by Eileen Fleming, bigthink.com. 2017.

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• If it was all about me, I'd do a whole lot of pop records, make a whole lot of money, just rake in the dough. But it's never been all about me. It's all about being a voice for the voiceless. People who can't speak for themselves, who don't have a mic, don't have a say.

  Ice Cube

  Voice, People, Records

  "Ice Cube: 'My son could recite Straight Outta Compton at two years old'". Interview with Alex Godfrey, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2014.

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• Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, Toothless bites, Mouthless mutters.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Cry, Toothless, Riddle

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit: 75th Anniversary Edition”, p.104, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• But finding a voice-let's be clear-is a political act. It defines a moment of presence, of being awake; and it involves not only self-understanding, but the ability to transmit that selfunderstanding to others...To experience yourself as "voiceless" is a definition of depression, subjugation, and being counted out. .

  Mary Rose O'Reilley

  Self, Voice, Political

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