Voiceless Quotes
57 Voiceless quotes by 56 unique authors
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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
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Recorded history is wrong. It’s wrong because the voiceless have no voice in it.
— Mary Lee Settle
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I'm grateful that, after an early life of being silenced, sometimes violently, I grew up to have a voice, circumstances that will always bind me…
— Rebecca Solnit
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My story is the story of forgotten people and the voice of the voiceless.
— Andrea Hirata
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In her own special, provocative language, Tonya Bolden gives a voice to the voiceless, a name to the nameless. Revelations abound in Strong Men Keep…
— Herb Boyd
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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…
— Vikas Swarup
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Lost Echo sits amid the voiceless mountains, And feeds her grief.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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My self-imposed mandate is to be the voice for the voiceless.
— Dionne Warwick
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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…
— Mervyn Peake
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Even the blind and meek and voiceless have gods.
— Terry Pratchett
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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…
— Oscar Wilde
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Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, Toothless bites, Mouthless mutters.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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The institutions of human society treat us as parts of a machine. They assign us ranks and place considerable pressure upon us to fulfill defined…
— Daisaku Ikeda
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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…
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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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…
— George MacDonald
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The stork is voiceless because there is really nothing to say.
— Will Cuppy
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It's a wonder that any mother ever called a daughter Dinah again. But some did. Maybe you guessed that there was more to me than…
— Anita Diament
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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…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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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…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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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
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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…
— Sami Al-Arian
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For millions of women and men around the world, the playwright Eve Ensler is a beloved figure. She represents the epitome of the politically engaged…
— Jackson Katz
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I love the power of celebrity because you can give voice to the voiceless.
— Q'orianka Kilcher
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Hip-hop is a voice for voiceless poor people.
— Russell Simmons
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From the beginning of my time as Secretary-General, I have sought to advance a practical, action-oriented vision of the U.N. as the voice of the…
— Ban Ki-moon
Who Wrote These Voiceless Quotes
56 authors contributed a total of 57 Voiceless Quotes, led by these top contributors: