A Quote by Richard Dawkins

People say I'm shrill and strident.

Richard Dawkins

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Richard Dawkins
English - Scientist
Born: March 26, 1941

What birds were they? (...) He listened to the cries: like the squeak of mice be- hind the wainscot : a shrill twofold note. But the notes were long and shrill and whirring, unlike the cry of vermin, falling a third or a fourth and trilled as the flying beaks clove the air. Their cry was shrill and clear and fine and falling like threads of silken light unwound from whirring spools.

James Joyce

The battle for women's rights has largely been won. The days when they were demanded and discussed in strident tones should be gone forever. I hate those strident tones we hear from some Women's Libbers.

Margaret Thatcher

Whenever a conscious Black woman raises her voice on issues central to her existence, somebody is going to call her strident, because they don't want to hear about it, nor us. I refuse to be silenced and I refuse to be trivialized, even if I do not say what I have to say perfectly.

Audre Lorde

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Say what you will about President Trump's tone, tactics or tweeting, but even his most strident critics admit he's at his best when on the offensive.

Charlie Kirk

You don't restore people's faith in law and order with shrill tones, but with real policies.

Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer

My goal is to be accused of being strident.

Susan Faludi

The American Medical Association says the humane way is to let people starve and thirst to death. If you did that to an animal, youd be put in jail immediately ... In the face of such insanity masquerading as authority, who wouldnt be strident?

Jack Kevorkian

I'm not that comfortable doing polemic or being strident.

Louis Theroux

The challenge was that it was harder to be subtle than strident.

Nancy Gibbs

Where a man is forceful, a woman is shrill.

Marcia Clark

There isn't a more strident supporter of Bernie than I am.

John Fetterman

I think it was there before, but - because of social media, too - there are these people who fancy themselves as tolerant, and don't see the hypocrisy and double standard of how they're not tolerant at all, and they're just strident and they don't listen. There's no dialogue anymore. That's maybe, truly, the worst part of Trump's legacy is just people yelling at each other.