"Silence has never brought us anything of worth."

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Audre Lorde

#Silence Quotes

“The mark of a life governed by the Holy Spirit is that such a life is continually and ever more and more occupied with Christ, that Christ becomes greater and greater as time goes on.”

Source : Theodore Austin-Sparks (2011). “The School of Christ”, p.5, Book Ministry
“I had lived a charmed life, and then I lost a beautiful woman I loved with all my heart.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.”
“The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. You can change the way people live their lives. That's the only lasting thing you can create.”
“No matter how much I try to be plain, people don't accept me, so I might as well be fabulous.”
“You can't afford to hate politics. The politics of this country is democracy. Democracy is by the people, of the people and for the people. The day people stop taking active part in the politics of this country, democracy will not survive.”
“I just wondered what a thing it would be...if overnight everything you owe anything to, justice, or love, had really gone away. Free. It would be...heartless terror. Yes. Terrible, and... Very great. To shed your skin, every old skin, one by one and then walk away, unemcumbered, into the morning.”
“People want to be liked by other people, so they adopt other people's standards, but for me, my standard had always been true.”

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