Quotes About Speaking out

Apathy in general; people who are not standing up for what they believe in because somebody's got a louder mouth than them; it doesn't make any sense.

The Nobel Prize gives one the opportunity to take public stands.

Anyone who refuses to speak out off campus does not deserve to be listened to on campus.

Neutrality is for referees in a football game. You have to take a stand. The really, really good journalists always take a stand with those who have no power, with those who have no rights, and with those who have no voice.

These facts have been completely removed from history. One has to practically scream them from the rooftops.

This dissent isn't going to suppress itself.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a trade unionist.

When we live in a world that is very unjust, you have to be a dissident.

When I started working in human rights, Eastern Europe was communist, South Africa was under apartheid and South Korea had military rule. All the changes have come about not because of the militaries or government but because small groups of people spoke out against what was unfair and unjust.

When one woman doesn't speak, other women get hurt.

Most of the women I spoke to were pushing agendas that they felt connected to - more so than with the male lobbyists I met with.

If women who were free to speak did not speak, we might as well say to the entire world, 'No matter what you do to women, no one cares, just go right ahead.'

Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself-like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.

The other reason that I am here today, again from the State Department and from the court record of the court of appeals, is that when I am abroad I speak out against the injustices against the Negro people of this land.

Girl power to me means being brave enough to take that first step and to speak out and be yourself.

As an actor, I have a lot of fear, thinking that if I speak my mind, or something that feels like it deviates from the norm as a woman, am I going to be made to disappear in my industry?

Trump is a major motivation to be speaking out because I so disagree with some of the things that he decides on, and you notice there's a lawsuit on just about everything he does? My gosh.

The man looked up wearily. You aint callin me a liar are ye son? I aint ye son. How old are you? That's some more of your business. How old are you? He's fifteen. You hush your damn mouth. He turned to the man. He dont speak for me, he said. He's done spoke. I was fifteen year old when I was first shot. I aint never been shot. You aint sixteen yet neither.

He who cannot take sides should keep silent.

Besides, I believe that older people who have scarcely anything to lose ought to be willing to speak out in behalf of those who are young and are subject to much greater restraint.

Jika hati anda bergetar melihat penindasan maka lawanlah sebab diam adalah bentuk penghianatan

I went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out.

It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.

I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means As are within my reach. You pierce my soul.