Chenjerai Hove quotes
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“When I take up my pen to write, I feel the strength of standing up and refusing to be silent. In an oppressive situation, silence is death.”
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“Creativity is a space for solitary longing, the desire to be elsewhere in space and time, to be in a new ideal world where life is as it should be.”
-- Chenjerai Hove
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“And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.”
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Source : Adam Hochschild (2011). “King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa”, p.356, Pan Macmillan
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“We will not be silent. We will not obey. We will not allow our government to destroy our humanity.”
Source : "Gun activist Adam Kokesh charged" By Laurie Ure, www.cnn.com. July 28, 2013.
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“Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.”
Source : Annie Besant (1917). “The Birth of New India: A Collection of Writings and Speeches on Indian Affairs”
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“I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent.”
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