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My responsibility is to speak out on my own convictions.

I can't give up my own identity.

If you took away publicists and things and people spoke for themselves, then they'd have to be responsible for their words.

Silence is complicity. Speak now or surrender your ground.

When you are mute, you become a good listener - it's all one-way. You appreciate the written word. You appreciate the sound.

All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.

Often we lose our identity trying to please or placate others.

A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.

I don't feel I can speak with authority for many other people.

I know what it's like to be growing up, called 'deaf and mute' and 'deaf and dumb.' They're words that are very degrading and demeaning to people who are deaf and hard of hearing. It's almost... it's almost libelous, if you want to say that.