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Deborah Prothrow-Stith

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last updated: November 28, 2023

“We cannot silence the voices that we do not like hearing. We can, however, do everything in our power to make certain that other voices are heard.”
-- Deborah Prothrow-Stith

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“Violence in our society has reached epidemic proportions. ... Violence in the media for entertainment purposes has been established as a major contributing factor.”
-- Deborah Prothrow-Stith

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“I am raising my voice as a citizen of the country. I don?t want to enter politics.”
“Singing for stage, if you don't hear yourself, that's when you push, and that's when you can hurt your voice sometimes. So if I can hear myself in my ear, it really helps me to find that balance of how loud I needed to be singing.”
“He pressed a kiss to my ear. â€œDo you feel stretched? Can you tell Iâ€™ve been inside you?â€ I nodded, feeling my knees go a little weak from the tone in his voice. â€œGood. I like knowing you can feel where Iâ€™ve been.”
“To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.”
“I have a pretty lousy voice.”
“Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.”
“Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles are in eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.”
“Quiet descended, a silence so consuming that even the drafty corridors ceased whistling. Bog wasn't certain where to look, so he solved the problem by plucking out his eyes and sticking them in a drawer.”

Source : A. Lee Martinez (2006). “Gil's All Fright Diner”, p.277, Macmillan
“And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor, its seemingly inexplicable outbursts of violence-is shaped far less by what we celebrate and mythologize than by the painful events we try to forget. Leopold's Congo is but one of those silences of history.”

Source : Adam Hochschild (2011). “King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa”, p.356, Pan Macmillan
“I am in total silence when I write - I don't even like the sound of the dryer going - I like the quiet.”

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