When by the
circumstances a speech is an act for liberty, then I trust that
you will make it. But when by speaking you feel that you would only drown your
own testimony by the sound of your own voice, then it is not such as I am who
desire you to break your silence.
SOURCE: Edward L.
Pierce, Memoir and Letters of Charles Sumner, Vol. 3, p. 286
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