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* Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
* Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
** [[Martin Farquhar Tupper]], ''Proverbial Philosophy'' (1838-1842), "Of Discretion".
** [[Martin Farquhar Tupper]], ''Proverbial Philosophy'' (1838-1842), "Of Discretion".
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* To sin by silence, when we should protest,<br>Makes cowards out of men. The human race<br>Has climbed on protest. Had no voice been raised<br>Against injustice, ignorance, and lust,<br>The inquisition yet would serve the law,<br>And guillotines decide our least disputes.<br>The few who dare, must speak and speak again<br>To right the wrongs of many. Speech, thank God,<br>No vested power in this great day and land<br>Can gag or throttle. Press and voice may cry<br>Loud disapproval of existing ills;<br>May criticise oppression and condemn<br>The lawlessness of wealth-protecting laws<br>That let the children and childbearers toil<br>To purchase ease for idle millionaires.<br><br>Therefore I do protest against the boast<br>Of independence in this mighty land.<br>Call no chain strong, which holds one rusted link.<br>Call no land free, that holds one fettered slave.<br>Until the manacled slim wrists of babes<br>Are loosed to toss in childish sport and glee,<br>Until the mother bears no burden, save<br>The precious one beneath her heart, until<br>God's soil is rescued from the clutch of greed<br>And given back to labor, let no man<br>Call this the land of freedom.
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** [[Ella Wheeler Wilcox]], "Protest," Poems of Problems, p. 154–55 (1914).
* The best way to describe silence is to say nothing—but what grace!
* The best way to describe silence is to say nothing—but what grace!