Erin Gruwell Quotes

Whoever refuses to remember the inhumanity is prone to new risks of infection.

Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted, the indifference of those who should have known better, the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most, that has made it possible for evil to triumph.

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

Silence is complicity. Speak now or surrender your ground.

Undoubtedly, to salve your conscience, you have now and then helped some miserable human being, but millions of human beings were murdered and nary a protest was heard.

History repeats itself because no one listens the first time.

You may choose to look the other way but you can never again say you did not know.

To be silent is to be complicit.

To be neutral in a situation of injustice is to have chosen sides already. It is to support the status quo.

To remain silent in the face of evil is itself a form of evil.

When they remain silent, they cry out.

History repeats itself because nobody listens the first time.

What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.

Complicity with error will take from the best of men the power to enter any successful protest against it.

Silence is consent. And silence where life and liberty is at stake, where by a timely protest we could stay the destoyer's hand, and do not do so, is as criminal as giving actual aid to the oppressor, for it answers his purpose.

No revolution can ever succeed as a factor of liberation unless the MEANS used to further it be identical in spirit and tendency with the PURPOSES to be achieved. Revolution is the negation of the existing, a violent protest against man's inhumanity to man with all the thousand and one slaveries it involves. It is the destroyer of dominant values upon which a complex system of injustice, oppression, and wrong has been built up by ignorance and brutality. It is the herald of NEW VALUES, ushering in a transformation of the basic relations of man to man, and of man to society.

It does not do to rely too much on silent majorities, Evey, for silence is a fragile thing, one loud noise, and its gone. But the people are so cowed and disorganised. A few might take the opportunity to protest, but it'll just be a voice crying in the wilderness. Noise is relative to the silence preceding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap. Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations, Evey and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.

I hear nothing, I see nothing, I know nothing!

Our silence is deafening and deadly.

All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.

History repeats itself over and over again, but most of us have short memories.

History is a record of the incessant struggle of humanity against ignorance and oppression.

All of us are subject to being passive to the social ills around us. It's a struggle not to become, by staying silent, an accomplice.