{"quotes":[{"text":"If as an adult I have scolded and then silenced the child within me, I contend that I am neither an adult nor a child. Rather, I am just plain ignorant.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["adult","child","children","choice","choices","fool","foolish","ignorant","inner-child","mature","maturity","naive","scolded","silence","silenced","stupid","suppress"],"id":32860,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Any species that devours its natural environment will eventually fall victim to the resulting silence and I call the toxicity of silence: Extinction Silence.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["devour","devoured","devours","environment","environmental","environmental-conservation","environmental-degradation","environmental-protection","environmental-values","environmentalism","extinction","natural","natural-disasters","natural-law","natural-selection","natural-world","naturalism","silence","silence","silenced","species","species-relations","victim","victims"],"id":45352,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"They took one look at me,And hated my black face.They took one look at me,And decided on my fate.They took one look at me,And forced an unknown fear.They took one look at me,And caused the shed of tears.They took one look at me,And decided I was wrong.They took one look at me,And now I'm singing the slave mans song...","author":"N'Zuri Za Austin","tags":["acknowledge","all-lives-matter","black-lives-matter","bleed","bleeding","blood","conflict","erase","faith","harmony","hope","human","humanity","humanness","injustice","inspiration","invalidate","justice","peace","phrase","poem","pray-for-everyone","pray-for-the-world","quote","rain","raining","silence","silenced","stronger-together","today","together","togetherness","union","unity","voice","words","write"],"id":73171,"author_id":"N%27Zuri+Za+Austin"},{"text":"Trauma is personal. It does not disappear if it is not validated. When it is ignored or invalidated the silent screams continue internally heard only by the one held captive.","author":"Danielle Bernock","tags":["captive","childhood-trauma","healing-the-emotional-self","inner-healing","inner-self","invalidation","lies","love-heals","pain","personal-development","scream","silenced","silent-pain","trauma"],"id":194280,"author_id":"Danielle+Bernock"},{"text":"We lived depravityand called it truth, silencingour dreaming, andour love, discardingthings holy.","author":"John Daniel Thieme","tags":["abandonment","depravity","discarded","regrets","silenced"],"id":306134,"author_id":"John+Daniel+Thieme"},{"text":"Conscience can be silenced through an incessant disobedience.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["conscience","disobedience","fact","incessant","silenced","truth"],"id":324098,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"Dissociation appears to be... The internal mechanism by which terrorized people are silenced.","author":"Judith Lewis Herman","tags":["dissociation","dissociative-disorders","silence","silence-speaks","silenced","terror","traumatized"],"id":344443,"author_id":"Judith+Lewis+Herman"},{"text":"There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.","author":"Arundhati Roy","tags":["ignored","silence","silenced","subaltern","unheard","voiceless"],"id":363847,"author_id":"Arundhati+Roy"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":8,"pages":1}}