Silence equals death 

Silence equals death (...). Silence is the ocean of the unsaid, the unspeakable, the repressed, the erased, the unheard. It surrounds the scattered isalnds made up of those allowed to speak and of what can be said and who listens. Silence occurs in many ways for many reasons; each of us has his or her own sea of unspoken words.

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Silence is what allows people to suffer without recourse, what allows hypocrisies and lies to grow and flourish, crime to go unpunished. If our voices are essential aspects of our humanity, to be rendered voiceless is to be dehumanized or excluded from one's humanity. And the history of silence is central to women's history.

- A short History of Silence, in The Mother of all Questions, Rebecca Solnit (2027)

Photo: Protest at COP27, Sharm-el-Sheik, November 2022