Bobby Knight Quotes

My voice was not heard, the questions were not asked that I wanted to see asked.

The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets the fact. When they move their lips no ear perceives any sound. And they themselves soon sink into impotence in the use of language, because of the certainty of not being heard.

Silence and invisibility go hand in hand with powerlessness.

People don't hear me talk. They don't expect me to.

I can hear the roar of women's silence.

Being an outsider means not being heard, not having a voice. It means being treated as a second-class citizen, being diminished in the eyes of others. We have all felt this way at one time or another, but some feel it more consistently. Unfortunately, our schools often do not embrace the talents of many of their occupants.

If you try to smooth out society with a hot iron, you're liable to drive out all talent.

The problem with Muslim women is less that we cannot speak the language, but that no one listens to us.

I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance. Things seem to take so much longer for me to do. I have to say things 10 times instead of once. I have to knock on 10 different doors instead of two. For everything. All the time. I feel like I'm not taken seriously.

It's the most annoying thing, when you've got the answers, but you're not heard.

Oppression doesn't disappear just because you decided not to teach us that chapter.

The loudest voice in the room, sometimes, is the absent voice of the silenced.

We cannot rely upon the silenced to tell us they are suffering.

What words can express her [the white woman’s] humiliation when, at the close of this long conflict, the government which she had served so faithfully held her unworthy of a voice in its councils, while it recognized as the political superiors of all the noble women of the nation the negro men just emerged from slavery, and not only totally illiterate, but also densely ignorant of every public question.

You degrade us and then ask why we are degraded. You shut our mouths and ask why we don't speak. You close your colleges and seminaries against us and then ask why we don't know.

There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.

Powerlessness and silence go together.

If religion is still being taught, it is by no means because its ideas still convince us, but simply because some of us want to keep the lower classes quiet. Quiet people are much easier to govern than clamorous and dissatisfied ones. They are also much easier to exploit..

Oppression is but another name for irresponsible power, if history is to be trusted.

You let men in power assume power for the Little Man. But you yourself remain silent. You give men in power or impotent people with evil intentions the power to represent you. Only too late do you realize that again and again you are being defrauded

Discrimination is not a national defense strategy!

I am against discrimination of any kind, but if I make snap judgments, no matter who it's towards, aren't I committing the same sin as someone who profiles?

I always think - when I get mad, and people say, 'Don't be the angry black woman' - it's like, well, why not? There's so much to be angry about.

All of my plays are about people who have been marginalized... erased from the public record.

I thought about all those people whose suffering had been erased, and I thought, 'Why can't they speak? Why can't I undo some of that erasure?'