{"quotes":[{"text":"Those with unearned privileges often spin things as 'political correctness' to further silence those they wish to oppress.","author":"DaShanne Stokes","tags":["biased","biased-opinion","biases","gay-rights","hate","hatred","homophobia","homophobic","lgbt","lgbt","lgbt-rights","lgbtq","oppression","oppression","political-correct","political-correctness","political-spins","politically-correct","politically-correct-culture","politically-incorrect","power","privilege","privileges","propaganda","propaganda","racism","racism-and-culture","racism-in-america","racism","racism","racist","silence","silence","silencing","silencing-dissent","silencing-others","spin","spinning","unearned-blessings"],"id":12055,"author_id":"DaShanne+Stokes"},{"text":"Every woman knows what I'm talking about. It's the presumption that makes it hard, at times, for any woman in any field; that keeps women from speaking up and from being heard when they dare; that crushes young women into silence by indicating, the way harassment on the street does, that this is not their world. It trains us in self-doubt and self-limitation just as it exercises men's unsupported overconfidence.","author":"Rebecca Solnit","tags":["confidence","feminism","gender","harassment","self-doubt","silencing"],"id":49926,"author_id":"Rebecca+Solnit"},{"text":"Saying something is 'politically correct' is often a way of dismissing the voices of the oppressed.","author":"DaShanne Stokes","tags":["biased","biased-opinion","biases","dismissal","ethnocentricity","ethnocentrism","homophobia","lgbt","lgbt","lgbt-rights","lgbtq","marginalization","oppressed","oppression","oppression","political-correctness","politically-correct","politically-correct-culture","politically-incorrect","prejudice","prejudices","racism","racism-and-culture","racism-in-america","racism","racism","silencing","silencing-dissent"],"id":84322,"author_id":"DaShanne+Stokes"},{"text":"Silencing the brain's ramblings gives the chance for wonderful thoughts to bloom.","author":"Steven Redhead","tags":["bloom","brain","ramblings","silencing","thoughts","wonderful"],"id":111082,"author_id":"Steven+Redhead"},{"text":"The language I learned was pretty, full of passivity and silence. I had no proper language for the issues of blood and anger, yet much of what went on when I was a child made me angry. There were no words a nice girl could use to describe anger; her options were to remain silent or to use indiscreet language, the kind that curls in a room like smoke and soon disappears. We girls were taught to speak safely and to bandage our anger with polite, pretty words. We might talk about the anger only in questions and sighs, unable to curse, yell or break windows in the beautiful garden.","author":"Beth Bagley","tags":["anger","language","silencing"],"id":255763,"author_id":"Beth+Bagley"},{"text":"Crazy. It was the same word María and Tía Rosa flung at Grandpa Lázaro. The same word anyone said when they didn't understand something. 'Crazy' was a way to shut people up, disregard them entirely.","author":"Daniel José Older","tags":["ableism","crazy","mental-illness","silencing"],"id":459704,"author_id":"Daniel+Jos%C3%A9+Older"},{"text":"I learned a lot about systems of oppression and how they can be blind to one another by talking to black men. I was once talking about gender and a man said to me, 'Why does it have to be you as a woman? Why not you as a human being?' This type of question is a way of silencing a person's specific experiences. Of course I am a human being, but there are particular things that happen to me in the world because I am a woman. This same man, by the way, would often talk about his experience as a black man. (To which I should probably have responded, 'Why not your experiences as a man or as a human being? Why a black man?').","author":"Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie","tags":["black-men","blind","experiences","gender","human-being","oppression","question","silencing","systems","talking","woman","world"],"id":466959,"author_id":"Chimamanda+Ngozi+Adichie"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":7,"pages":1}}