Notable Quotable 151

Nov 21, 2023

The dissenter is every human being at those times of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.

- Archibald Macleish

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

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

When they put bombs in cars and kill people, they're uncivilized killers. When we put bombs on missiles and kill people, we're upholding civilized values. When they kill, they're terrorists. When we kill, we're striking against terror.

- Norman Solomon

We have to condemn publicly the very idea that some people have the right to repress others. In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers ... we are ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

- Booker T. Washington

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Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.

- Voltaire

Without an unfettered press, without liberty of speech, all of the outward forms and structures of free institutions are a sham, a pretense -- the sheerest mockery. If the press is not free; if speech is not independent and untrammeled; if the mind is shackled or made impotent through fear, it makes no difference under what form of government you live, you are a subject and not a citizen.

- William E. Borah

I wonder now how the foreign policies of the United States would look if we wiped out the national boundaries of the world, at least in our minds, and thought of all children everywhere as our own. Then we could never drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, or napalm on Vietnam, or wage war anywhere, because wars, especially in our time, are always wars against children, indeed our children.

- Howard Zinn

Cherish... the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. Do not be too severe upon their errors, but reclaim them by enlightening them.

- Thomas Jefferson to Edward Carrington

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

- Alice Walker