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We need to hear these silenced voices. That is the power of independent media: to give voice to the voiceless; to those who have been shut out of the debate.

— Amy Goodman Democracy Now!: Twenty Years Covering the Movements Changing America (2016)

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To sin by silence, when we should protest,
Makes cowards out of men.

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Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.

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There are times when good words are to be left unsaid out of esteem for silence.

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