86 Voiceless Quotes

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Famous Voiceless Quotes

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

I am the voice of the voiceless. — CM Punk

Type well used is invisible as type, just as the perfect talking voice is the unnoticed vehicle for the transmission of words, ideas. — Beatrice Warde

The unspoken word never does harm. - Lajos Kossuth

The unspoken word never does harm. — Lajos Kossuth

The silence sings. It is musical. I remember a night when it was audible. I heard the unspeakable. — Henry David Thoreau

The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent.' — Alfred Brendel

Silence is better than unmeaning words. - Pythagoras

Silence is better than unmeaning words. — Pythagoras

To be honest, speak without identity. — Naval Ravikant

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time. — Thomas Carlyle

Quiet is the absence of sound. Silence is the presence of silence. - Robert Fripp

Quiet is the absence of sound. Silence is the presence of silence. — Robert Fripp

My words are a whisper, your deafness a shout. — Jethro Tull

The loudest noise in the world is silence. — Thelonious Monk

People who make no noise are dangerous. - Jean De La Fontaine

People who make no noise are dangerous. — Jean De La Fontaine

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound. - William Shakespeare

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound. — William Shakespeare

Silence is more than just a lack of words. — Egyptian Proverbs

Short Voiceless Quotes

  • The ones who have a voice must speak for those who are voiceless. — Oscar Romero
  • I am a victim-oriented person. I like to see that the victims know that they have a voice. — Fatou Bensouda
  • Anybody can make a difference and be a voice for the voiceless. — Zach Hunter
  • Through words he gave voice to the voiceless. Through deeds he gave courage to the faint of heart. — Barack Obama
  • My self-imposed mandate is to be the voice for the voiceless. — Dionne Warwick
  • Be a voice for the voiceless y'all. This world needs more love and hope! — Taylor York
  • He who hides his madman, dies voiceless. — Henri Michaux
  • The stork is voiceless because there is really nothing to say. — Will Cuppy
  • Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, Toothless bites, Mouthless mutters. — J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Science is voiceless; it is the scientists who talk. — Simone Weil

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Be The Voice For The Voiceless Quotes

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

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

The mere fact of an American being present could help save the lives of innocent people. That's why I believe in the importance of bearing witness, to become a voice for the voiceless. — Bianca Jagger

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

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

To be courageous is to be a voice for the voiceless — Tariq Ramadan

Voiceless Voice Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

Hip-hop is a voice for voiceless poor people. — Russell Simmons

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

My story is the story of forgotten people and the voice of the voiceless. — Andrea Hirata

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

My philosophy about journalism is simple - that we have a job to hold those in power accountable, to give voice to the voiceless, and to provide people with information that they can use to make informed decisions about what policies they want enacted in their name and what policies they don't. — Jeremy Scahill

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More Voiceless Quotes

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.

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

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

Johnny Cash was the champion of the voiceless, the underdogs and the downtrodden. He was also something of a holy terror, like Abraham Lincoln with a wild side. He represented the best of America. — Kris Kristofferson

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

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

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

Art is the way to the absolute and to the essence of human life. The aim of art is not the one-sided promotion of spirit, soul and senses, but the opening of all human capacities – thought, feeling, will – to the life rhythm of the world of nature. So will the voiceless voice be heard and the self be brought into harmony with it. — Bruce Lee

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? — Martin Luther King, Jr.

We are conjured voiceless out of nothing and must return to an unknowing state. What happens in between is an uncontrolled dance, and what we ask for in love is no more than a momentary chance to get the steps right, to move in harmony until the music stops. — Louise Erdrich

When everyone else is more comfortable remaining voiceless, Rather than fighting for humans that have had their rights stolen, I might not be the same, but that's not important. No freedom 'til we're equal, damn right I support it. — Macklemore

Let the voice be the voice of the voiceless and let it come from the world of rap music to keep the stereotype and the peace at the same time. — Chuck D

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

There have been decades of failed policies: zero tolerance, harassment and people being locked up for small crimes -\-\ policies that drive a divide between communities and law enforcement. So many people feel like they are voiceless, that they've been dehumanized. What we saw in the riots is a result of that. — Marilyn Mosby

As Americans we rightfully place tremendous value on having a free and independent press. Our role as journalists is to give voice to the voiceless, and hold our leaders and institutions accountable. But the circle is only completed when that information is consumed by a free thinking and engaged audience. — Lester Holt

Happy is the man who can with vigorous wing Mount to those luminous serene fields! The man whose thoughts, like larks, Take liberated flight toward the morning skies --Who hovers over life and understands without effort The language of flowers and voiceless things! — Charles Baudelaire

My role [as a war correspondent] is to bring a voice to people who are voiceless [and] to shine a light in the darkest corners of the world. — Janine di Giovanni

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