Quotes About Speaking out

I no longer believe that we can keep silent. We never really do, mind you.

If more people spoke up, perhaps things might change.

You know, the truth is that right after 9/11, I had a (flag) pin. Shortly after 9/11, particularly because as we're talking about the Iraq war, that became a substitute for, I think, true patriotism, which is speaking out on issues that are of importance to our national security, I decided I won't wear THAT pin on my chest…

When you have something to say, silence is a lie—and tyranny feeds on lies.

A strong case can be made for religious leaders to speak out on political issues.

One should never ignore or be afraid of reporting or calling out a harasser. There is no shame in doing so.

I read the Bible, I speak through issues, I see what I think is hypocrisy in the church and things that are wrong, and I speak to these things. But I could be wrong.

I'm not going to stand by and ignore things that I think are important to talk about.

I'm still a big wrestling fan. I buy the Pay-Per-Views. I think that gives me the right to speak out just like any other fan.

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

Certainly in the modern age where everything is glossed over, when somebody speaks their mind, the majority of the public go, I'd love to have said that.

My sin lies in not screaming loud

it is equally essential that we address without fear those who exploit, oppress, and dominate us. If women remain unable to speak to and about men in a feminist voice then our challenge to male domination on other fronts is seriously undermined.

If you have something to say then you want someone to pay attention or at least to have the opportunity for them to tell you to shut up and go away.

Some may be different to others based off of situations that they experienced in their life, but there's no amount of money that can get me to just shut up and dribble. No, I'm not going to do that.

There's no amount of money that can make me shut up about something I think is wrong.

In the same way that Egypt and Libya conspired to 'disappear' my father and silence writers such as Idris Ali, they made me, too, to a far lesser extent, feel punished for speaking out.

My social media is riddled with me speaking out on stuff that matters because silence is a petri dish for hate. For me, it's important to speak out.

To be silent is to be complicit.

I don't want to be a dissident. But in the same time, I don't want to go back home and be silent again.

It would have been more comfortable to remain silent.

If I keep silent, I am betraying my people.

But it has been my way—as a woman, but also as a writer—to speak of the kinds of human experience so many of us are taught to believe we should keep hidden. I am speaking here of those so-called "shameful" emotions like envy, anger, self-pity, vanity, pride—the moments I believe all of us experience in which we display our least heroic but possibly most human selves. Over my many years as a writer, I

All along you could have done one thing. One thing simpler than all the rest. You could have told the truth about how you felt. Publicly. You could have stood up and said This is happening and it's wrong.