Enes Kanter Quotes

I don't want to be a dissident. But in the same time, I don't want to go back home and be silent again.

When men hold their peace, the stones will cry out.

I have left my home, my family, and my job, and I am raising my voice. To do otherwise would betray those who languish in prison. I can speak when so many cannot.

They think because they have put my husband on an island that he will be forgotten. They are wrong. The harder they try to silence him, the louder I will become.

Let us refuse to be silent! Speaking freely is a decisive step forward on the road to freedom.

Ever since I came to Congress in 1992, there are those who have been trying to silence my voice. I've been told to 'sit down and shut up' over and over again. Well, I won't sit down and I won't shut up until the full and unvarnished truth is placed before the American people.

The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny.

You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution.

I refuse to be silenced.

Now, when our nation to ruin's brink is verging, let us speak while there is time! Now, when the padlocks for our lips are forging. Silence is crime!

When the prison, stake or scaffold can no longer silence the voice of the protesting minority, progress moves on a step, but not until then.

Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked. If a dictatorship ever comes to this country, it will be by the default of those who keep silent. We are still free enough to speak. Do we have time? No one can tell.

People and systems count on our silence to keep us exactly where we are.... in a world that wants us to whisper, I choose to yell.

Democracy is not what we hate the most and what we fear the most. We need to stand up.

I don't fear death; I fear remaining silent in the face of injustice. I am young and I want to live. But I say to those that would eliminate my voice: I am ready, wherever and whenever you might strike. You can cut down the flower, but nothing can stop the coming of the spring.

There are no outdoor sports as graceful as throwing stones at a dictatorship.

You can Jail a Revolutionary but you can't jail the Revolution. You can run a freedom fighter around the country, but you can't run freedom fighting around the country. You can murder a liberator, but you can't murder liberation.

They claim that I'm violent just cuz I refuse to be silent.

I often traveled to Nicaragua to speak against repressive policies by the Sandinista government.

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.

The real truth is, I just want to keep the voice of dissent alive in all of our elections. I don't really want to hang out with politicians.

We must learn, and especially we Germans, that resistance is not only possible and allowed in dictatorships. There is resistance that man must perform every day.

A lot of prophets have gone to jail.

Our war cries opened the deaf ears of the almighty government and its accomplices.

I don't think the only place to fight for freedom is in the halls of Congress.