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Breaking Silence Quotes

America never was America to me And yet I swear this oath - America will be!

America never was America to me And yet I swear this oath - America will be!

Langston Hughes (1970). “The poetry of the Negro, 1746-1970”

The moving finger writes; and having writ, moves on.

Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald, Christopher Decker (1997). “Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition”, p.194, University of Virginia Press

We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now.

Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City

What's breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?

Bertolt Brecht (2015). “Brecht Collected Plays: 2: Man Equals Man; Elephant Calf; Threepenny Opera; Mahagonny; Seven Deadly Sins”, p.204, A&C Black

We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society.

Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City

A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our present policies.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “"In a Single Garment of Destiny": A Global Vision of Justice”, p.119, Beacon Press

We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak.

Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City