Voiceless Quotes - Page 4

• We have heard all of our lives how, after the Civil War was over, the South went back to straighten itself out and make a living again. It was for many years a voiceless part of the government. The balance of power moved away from it--to the north and the east. The problems of the north and the east became the big problem of the country and nobody paid much attention to the economic unbalance the South had left as its only choice.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Country, War, Adversity

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• Dogs are voiceless ... a critical part of having dogs is emotional responsibility: learning how to understand them and, when necessary, to speak and act on their behalf.

  Jon Katz

  Dog, Responsibility, Emotional

  Jon Katz (2003). “The New Work of Dogs: Tending to Life, Love, and Family”, p.14, Villard

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• And wilt thou have me fashion into speech The love I bear thee, finding words enough, And hold the torch out, while the winds are rough, Between our faces, to cast light on each? - I dropt it at thy feet. I cannot teach My hand to hold my spirits so far off From myself--me--that I should bring thee proof In words, of love hid in me out of reach. Nay, let the silence of my womanhood Commend my woman-love to thy belief, - Seeing that I stand unwon, however wooed, And rend the garment of my life, in brief, By a most dauntless, voiceless fortitude, Lest one touch of this heart convey its grief.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Fashion, Grief, Heart

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2009). “Sonnets from the Portuguese”, p.18, The Floating Press

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• As one of the dumb, voiceless ones I speak. One of the millions of immigrants beating, beating out their hearts at your gates for a breath of understanding.

  Anzia Yezierska

  Heart, Understanding, Dumb

  Anzia Yezierska (1923). “Children of Loneliness”

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• However much we obfuscate or ignore it, we know that the factory farm is inhumane in the deepest sense of the word. And we know that there is something that matters in a deep way about the lives we create for the living beings most within our power. Our response to the factory farm is ultimately a test of how we respond to the powerless, to the most distant, to the voiceless--it is a test of how we act when no one is forcing us to act one way or another.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Tests, Matter, Way

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• The stork is voiceless because there is really nothing to say.

  Will Cuppy

  Storks

  Will Cuppy, P. G. Wodehouse (2005). “How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes”, p.54, David R. Godine Publisher

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• But words are vain; reject them all— They utter but a feeble part: Hear thou the depths from which they call, The voiceless longing of my heart.

  George MacDonald

  Heart, Depth, Longing

  George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.46, Delphi Classics

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• A beautiful woman risking everything for a mad passion. A few wild weeks of happiness cut short by a hideous, treacherous crime. Months of voiceless agony, and then a child born in pain. The mother snatched away by death, the boy left to solitude and the tyranny of an old and loveless man. Yes, it was an interesting background. It posed the lad, made him more perfect as it were. Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Mother, Pain

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.36, GENERAL PRESS

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• How would I like to be remembered? As a person who came and brought light to the world, some escapism. Also as the voice for the voiceless children, because I love them.

  Michael Jackson

  Children, Light, Voice

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• Rap comes from the oral tradition. The oral tradition gives voice to those who would've otherwise been voiceless.

  Benjamin Zephaniah

  Rap, Voice, Giving

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• If we are really serious about protecting the environment, the discharge pipes and stacks of industry would all plug directly into their intake side, and costs would not be externalized to a voiceless environment.

  Wes Jackson

  Environmental, Cost, Sides

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• This tower, patched unevenly with black ivy, arose like a mutilated finger from among the fists of knuckled masonry and pointed blasphemously at heaven. At night the owls made of it an echoing throat; by day it stood voiceless and cast its long shadow.

  Mervyn Peake

  Night, Ivy, Long

  Mervyn Peake (2007). “Titus Groan”, p.12, The Overlook Press

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• Sometimes strident, often tender, never afraid and seldom without humour, Desmond Tutu's voice will always be the voice of the voiceless.

  Nelson Mandela

  Voice, Sometimes, Humour

  "Desmond Tutu is one of a rare breed" by Cath Elliott, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2010.

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