Remained Silent

Famous quotes containing the words remained and/or silent:

“Only one thing remained reachable, close and secure amid all losses: language.”
—Paul Celan [Paul Antschel] (1920–1970)

“... women learned one important lesson—namely, that it is impossible for the best of men to understand women’s feelings or the humiliation of their position. When they asked us to be silent on our question during the War, and labor for the emancipation of the slave, we did so, and gave five years to his emancipation and enfranchisement.... I was convinced, at the time, that it was the true policy. I am now equally sure that it was a blunder.”
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902)