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“Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of the wily agitator who induces him to desert? I think that in such a cse to silence the agitator and save the boy is not only constitutional but withal a great mercy.”

Thinking War Simple Silence Boys History Hair Mercy Soldier Desert Civil War American Civil War

Book:Abraham Lincoln, a Documentary Portrait Through His Speeches and Writings

Source: Abraham Lincoln, a Documentary Portrait Through His Speeches and Writings

“The most common characteristic of women's history is to be lost and discovered, lost again and rediscovered, lost once more and re-rediscovered - a process of tragic waste and terrible silences that will continue until women's stories are a full and equal part of the human story.”

Humans Stories Lost Process Common Silence History Terrible Equal Waste Characteristics Tragic

Author:Gloria Steinem

“There are always some areas world history does not reach, zones of silence and undisturbed ignorance.”

World Doe Silence History Ignorance Areas Zone World History

Book:Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century: The perspective of the world

Source: Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century: The perspective of the world

“History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.”

Source: The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr

“Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.”

Humans Feelings Literature Language Silence History Missing Expression Contrary Noise Meaningless Deprivation Recourse Sensory Deprivation

Book:Alternating Current

Source: Alternating Current

“I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”

Source: From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences

“There are no mistakes, no coincidences; all events are blessings given to us to learn from.”

“Any historical narrative is a bundle of silences.”

Silence History Historical Narrative Bundles

Author:Michel-Rolph Trouillot

“I decided it is better to scream. . . . Silence is the real crime against humanity.”

Real Humanity Women Silence History Crime Decided Empowering Scream Silence Is Crimes Against Humanity

Author:Nadezhda Mandelstam

“"The sounds of people drowning are something that I can not describe to you, and neither can anyone else. It's the most dreadful sound and there is a terrible silence that follows it."”

People I Can Sound Silence History Terrible Can Not Drowning

Author:Eva Hart

“I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.”

Said Silence History Harm

Author:Calvin Coolidge