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Dear sisters and brothers, we realise the importance of light when we see darkness. We realise the importance of our voice when we are silenced.

— Malala Yousafzai

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox New Thought Pastels (1913)

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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I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?

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