Quotes About Speaking out

Evil grows when good people do and say nothing.

Sometimes it's appropriate to scream at them.

Once you recognize what is happening, you have a moral obligation to become involved. Perhaps all you can do is tell others, write letters, or contribute financially to those who are working to expose what is taking place. If you choose to do nothing, you become an accomplice to evil, and one day you will have to answer for your failure to act.

Some of the women had gone public. Others had told Paltrow that because they succumbed to Weinstein sexually, they felt they could never speak out. Weinstein denied he had ever made those claims about Paltrow, but it seemed this was why he had been so worried about the prospect of her speaking up: Once others knew her story, his scheme would fall apart.

People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion.

We support films like 'Thappad' and so on, but if we aren't brave enough to speak up for ourselves and stand for what is right, is there any point in celebrating movies that promote this?

To be an outspoken professor in academia is a very dangerous proposition.

to speak of them out loud, to speak of their hunger and pain and loneliness and humour, to make them visible so that can not be ravaged in the dark without great consequence.

In terms of men being feminist allies, it's just important to speak from your own place. I'd love to hear men singing about masculinity and the damage it does to them.

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

I feel a real sense of duty to use the voice and the platform I've been afforded by my fame to speak out for those whose voices don't get a chance to be heard.

I'm not terribly fond of soapboxes.

I remember being on a red carpet and they put the mic to us and asked 'are you feminists?' and we panicked. We were so terrified to speak back then.

I have been asked about terrorism many times, and each time I speak as clearly as I can.

To remain silent is to be complicit in the face of the increasing injustice, racism, xenophobia, and intolerance we are currently witnessing today.

I am hopeful that others who have suffered sexual harassment will not become discouraged by my experience, but instead will find the strength to speak out about this serious problem.

Since then I've always thought that under rape in the dictionary it should tell the truth. It is not just forcible intercourse; rape means to inhabit and destroy everything.

Only cowards hide behind silence.

Speak Truth to Power.

It's really important that folks be able to speak out.

Everybody has their own opinion and it's, how you say, a free country. Everybody can speak freely.

The #metoo campaign opened a particular window into the gender dynamics in technology, with many prominent women speaking out.

People were telling me it was refreshing I was real because previous 'X Factor' winners were too afraid to say anything. I decided to go against the grain. But I took it too far.

Getting the message out there to speak out is huge, and I think you can be the brightest person in the room, but people never know what's going on really inside and the hardest thing is to speak out. You've got to speak out. I think sometimes you maybe hold it all in and it can get too much at times.