„Let us have the luxury of silence.“

— Jane Austen

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„For we have been socialized to respect fear more than our own needs for language and definition, and while we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness, the weight of that silence will choke us.“
— Audre Lorde
„Let us sculpt in hopeless silence all our dreams of speaking.“
— Fernando Pessoa
„The fact that we are here and that I speak these words is an attempt to break that silence and bridge some of those differences between us, for it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence. And there are so many silences to be broken.“
— Audre Lorde
„The time comes when silence is betrayal. That time has come for us today…… some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak.“
— Jr.
„May that day perish from Time's record, nor future generations believe it! Let us at least keep silence, and suffer the crimes of our own house to be buried deep in whelming darkness.“
— Statius