Quotes About Speaking out

As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.

We cannot rely upon the silenced to tell us they are suffering.

Not being heard is no reason for silence.

change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

Evil prevails if good people say nothing. -

Life is hard when you have no one to stick up for you. People push you around, purely because there's no one to stop them from pushing you around.

When a lot of people are distrusting the news they watch, comedians are stepping up talking about things that most people are too afraid to talk about, shining light on problems nobody else will admit, whether it's Samantha Bee or John Oliver or Trevor Noah.

Once we know of atrocities we cannot remain silent, and knowledge inevitably leads to an urge to protect the innocent.

If I were a Negro, I'd be fighting, as Martin Luther King fought, for human recognition and justice. I'd rather go down with my flag flying. If you're weak or crippled, or you can't speak out or fight back in some way, then people don't hesitate to treat you badly.

I get a lot of mud slung at me, and yes, I do take planes, but I feel that's my life. My life is to travel and also to speak out about the horrors of an environment that is being abused at the hands of an irresponsible oil company.

I always said if I had a platform to speak, I am going to speak. I feel it is just important, not only for African American-related things but world things in general.

As a human being, when I see things going on in my community, I feel compelled to do something, to say something.

When I see something that's wrong, I just speak and act first and I'll take the consequences later.

I'm not good at talking politics. I'm probably not well-versed enough to speak out, but I do have my opinions and my feelings and frustrations, especially with regards to the environment and sustainability and our lack of taking care of what we have.

One of the cruelest judgments sustained against me is that I have spoken out as a recovered alcoholic to stimulate my acting career.

Authors are not a special case, deserving of more sympathy than many other groups. We are a particular case of a general degradation of the quality of life, and we are not going to stop pointing it out, because we speak for many other groups as well.

Violence, especially if you are a woman, is not something spoken about with ease.

I learned the power of storytelling and the responsibility that people with influence have to speak out

As Martin Luther King Jr. once said, "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

The man dies in all those that keep silent.

The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny.

It is exhausting living in a population where people don't speak up if what they witness doesn't directly threaten them.