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If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity.

Violence does not necessarily take people by the throat and strangle them. Usually it demands no mor...

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To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.

Civil disobedience, as I put it to the audience, was not the problem, despite the warnings of some t...

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Howard ZinnYou Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistanc...

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Maya AngelouI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings