It is never my custom to use words lightly. If twenty-seven years in prison have done anything to us, it was to use the silence of solitude to make us understand how precious words are and how real speech is in its impact on the way people live and die.

Nelson Mandela

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To persevere in one's duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny.

George Washington

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Fools multiply when wise men are silent.

Nelson Mandela

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Certainly Birmingham had its white moderates who disapproved of Bull Connor's tactics. Certainly Birmingham had its decent white citizens who privately deplored the maltreatment of Negroes. But they remained publicly silent.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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If he who does not know kept silent, discord would cease.

Socrates

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