Silencing Others Quotes (6 quotes)

“People will think what they want to think, not because they believe they are right, but because it鈥檚 in their nature to maintain that they are. By defending yourself, you feed the appetite for drama. By not, you鈥檝e ended the conversation.”
― Penelope Douglas, Hideaway

tags: prejudices, silencing-others

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“Those with unearned privileges often spin things as 'political correctness' to further silence those they wish to oppress.”
― DaShanne Stokes

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“Mainly, it鈥檚 not that there are things you can鈥檛 say. It鈥檚 that there are things you can鈥檛 say without the risk that people who previously lacked a voice might use their own freedom of speech to object.”
― Oliver Burkeman

tags: bigotry, freedom-of-speech, oppression, pc, political-correctness, politically-correct, politically-correct-culture, silencing-others, speaking-out

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“This is why i hate social media. It gives a voice to people who dont (sic) deserve one.”
― Gary Streeter

tags: having-a-voice, inequality, silencing-dissent, silencing-others, social-media, voiceless

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“In the past, child abuse has been a problem without a solution, with distressing case after case accumulating in public awareness without apparent end. At least the 鈥榝alse memory鈥� narrative offered a potential, if illusory and damaging, resolution to this intolerable situation, in the (re)suppression of victim complaints.”
― Michael Salter

tags: child-abuse, child-abuse-denial, child-abuse-survivors, child-sexual-abuse, false-memories, silence-the-accuser, silencing-others, society-denial

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“It's not so much that history is written by the victors, as the old saying goes, but the powerful do often have the capacity to make themselves heard and to erase the voices of others.”
― Elizabeth Boyle, Fierce Appetites: Loving, Losing and Living to Excess in My Present and in the Writings of the Past

tags: authority, control, education, history, medieval-history, narrative-voice, power, silencing-others, storytelling, victory

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