---
name: "Wole Soyinka on silence"
subtitle: "A.Word.A.Day's Thought for Today, on his birthday"
date: 2026-07-13
link: "https://wordsmith.org/words/arete.html"
linkText: "wordsmith.org"
source: "A.Word.A.Day"
topics: [words-and-humor]
tags: [quote, birthday, nobel-laureate]
description: "A.Word.A.Day's Thought for Today, marking playwright and Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka's birthday."
---

"The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny." — Wole Soyinka, playwright, poet, and Nobel laureate, born 13 July 1934. It ran as A.Word.A.Day's "Thought for Today" on his birthday, tucked at the bottom of the day's word entry.