A Quote by Cornel West

Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.

Cornel West

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Cornel West
American - Educator
Born: June 2, 1953

Language is not subtle enough, tender enough, to express all that we feel; and when language fails, the highest and deepest longings are translated into music. Music is the sunshine - the climate - of the soul, and it floods the heart with a perfect June.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Sometimes a people lose their right to remain silent when pressured to remain silent.

Criss Jami

Great thoughts cannot remain silent. They are born to scream!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Corporate America cannot afford to remain silent or passive about the downward spiral we are undergoing. It cannot turn a blind eye to how difficult the experience of life is for so many of their customers.

Simon Mainwaring

We cannot remain silent when someone of the Pope's stature and credibility confuses religious principles for science

Paul Kurtz

Once we know of atrocities we cannot remain silent, and knowledge inevitably leads to an urge to protect the innocent.

Azar Nafisi

You do not need to justify asking questions. But if you think you have found answers, you do not have the right to remain silent.

Jacob Neusner

There is the cause for pleasure and for pain: But music moves us, and we know not why? We feel the tears, but cannot trace their source. Is it the language of some other state, Born of its memory! For what can wake The soul's strong instinct of another world, Like music?

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

We must show our Christian colors, if we are to be true to Jesus Christ. We cannot remain silent or concede everything away.

C. S. Lewis

Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow.

Elie Wiesel

we need to turn the question around to look at the harasser, not the target. We need to be sure that we can go out and look anyone who is a victim of harassment in the eye and say, 'You do not have to remain silent anymore.

Anita Hill

Music is a universal language insofar as you don't need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with other than that they can play music. It doesn't matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is. The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.

Jerry Garcia

If a police officer arrests a mime, does he need to tell him he has the right to remain silent.

Jess Walter

I am very close to my family. I have learned a lot from my father. He used to tell me to be honest with yourself and not to argue with your seniors. You don't need to be involved in any quarrel, as sometimes you need to remain silent intelligently.

Suresh Raina

The sense of the world must lie outside the world... What we cannot speak about we must remain silent about... What can be described can happen too, and what is excluded by the laws of causality cannot be described.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

I am very close to my family. I have learned a lot from my father. He used to tell me to be honest with yourself and not to argue with your seniors. You dont need to be involved in any quarrel, as sometimes you need to remain silent intelligently.

Suresh Raina

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