We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
To silence criticism is to silence freedom.
Silence is complicity. Speak now or surrender your ground.
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
When political leaders fail to denounce anti-Semitic violence and slurs, the void is not only demoralizing to the victims, but silence actually enables the wrongdoing. Silence by elected officials in particular conveys approval - or at least acquiescence - and can contribute to a climate of fear and a sense of vulnerability.
To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.
We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.
We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.
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