Definition of "Silent"

From Ali (technically a Silent who was born in 1942), to Tommie Smith's medal-stand protest, to Joe Namath's Super Bowl prediction to the hair-raising Oakland A's and the raucous Bronx Zoo Yankees of the 1970s, to the outbursts of Connors and McEnroe on the tennis court, to King's tireless push for women's equality off it, this was a generation unafraid of offering opinions.

2011 February 17, Richard Rothschild, “Ranking generations of athletes”, in Sports Illustrated‎, New York, N.Y.: Arena Group Holdings, Inc., archived from the original on 2022-05-21

In a somewhat bizarre set of survey data from 2015, 33 percent of Millennials identified as Gen X, and 8 percent said that they were Boomers. Fifteen percent of Gen Xers said that they identified as Boomers, while a baffled 2 percent of Boomers and 4 percent of Silents thought of themselves as Millennials.

2021 October 14, Joe Pinsker, “’Gen Z’ Only Exists in Your Head”, in The Atlantic‎, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, archived from the original on 2023-09-13