“Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.”

“Genuine bravery for a writer.... It is about calmly speaking the truth when everyone else is silenced, when the truth cannot be expressed. It is about speaking out with a different voice, risking the wrath of the state and offending everyone, for the sake of the truth, and the writer’s conscience.”

“When journalism is silenced, literature must speak. Because while journalism speaks with facts, literature speaks with truth.”

“The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his actions.”

“On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.”

“It may...be judged indecent in me to come forward on this occasion; but when I see a fellow-creature about to perish through the cowardice of her pretended friends, I wish to be allowed to speak, that I may say what I know of her character.”