# Quote — Amy Goodman, The Exception To The Rulers

> Going to where the silence is. That is the responsibility of a journalist: giving a voice to those who have been forgotten, forsaken, and beaten down by the powerful. It is the best reason I know to carry our pens, cameras, and microphones into our own communities and out to the wider world.

- Author: [Amy Goodman](https://www.leafyquotes.com/amy-goodman.md)
- Book: [The Exception To The Rulers](https://www.leafyquotes.com/amy-goodman/the-exception-to-the-rulers.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/amy-goodman/the-exception-to-the-rulers/going-to-where

## More from this book

> Vibrant debate and dissent exist in this country, but you are not reading or hearing about this in the mainstream press.

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> The same could be said of Henry Kissinger. While many in the United States still see Nixon and Ford's former secretary of state as an elder statesman, the rest of the world sees him as a war criminal responsible for the deaths and suffering of millions in Chile, Vietnam, Laos, Argentina, East Timor, and Cambodia, to name a few.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/amy-goodman/the-exception-to-the-rulers/the-same-could.md)

> Social change does not spring forth from the minds of generals or presidents-in fact, change is often blocked by the powerful. Change starts with ordinary people working in their communities. And that's where media should start as well.

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