Quotes About Speaking out

Nuestras vidas empiezan a acabarse el día en que guardamos silencio sobre las cosas importantes MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR

The greatest benefit of depression is the fact that when I have talked about it, every so often someone comes up and says, you saved my dad's life.

IT happened. There is no avoiding it, no forgetting. No running away, or flying, or burying, or hiding.

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides.

When I see a blatant injustice, I can't keep quiet. I've been that way since I was a little kid.

When you know something in your heart, you better not be quiet about it. You better speak out about it.

One girl was helped from my appearance on the show, and I swore I would not keep quiet again. When you talk about things that are embarrassing or devastating, obviously you can help people when you do.

It's always important, when we experience injustice in this nation, that people in power understand that we will not take that injustice quietly.

I've done what people have been urging me to do for quite some time. I have finally gagged Piers Morgan.

I'll rail against what I think is wrong.

If we want to end a culture rampant with harassment, we must listen to the adult women who are speaking out courageously. We must also make room for girls to speak: If we listened, we'd find that many middle schoolers are trying to tell us, 'Me too.'

There are real consequences when women speak out. It's really dangerous, and it takes real courage. We are still speaking out against a white male majority. Forget the glass ceiling. We haven't even broken the glass floor!

There's only so much I can do to effect change - and really, the thing that I can do that's most effective is to work and to do good work. That, I feel, is speaking out in its own way.

The concept of a literature of witness - of bearing witness - has embedded in it the need for action. One must not simply hide in the shadows and type; one must also stand in the light.

Animals in the streets have tough lives, so it's up to all of us to speak out if we ever witness them being abused.

I promised never to let the Rwandan Genocide die because I knew the Rwandans didn't have much power internationally and certainly didn't have the resources. I felt it was my duty having witnessed it, and having stayed to witness it, that I had to talk about it and keep it going.

I'm trying as hard as I can to keep pushing the boundaries of what a woman is capable of doing. And it turns out there's a lot we can do. There's a lot we can speak about.

The one thing I have never been afraid of is standing before important people and speaking my mind. I represent women who may never have the opportunity to go to the UN or meet with a president. I'm never afraid to speak truth to power.

Silence is the enemy of social change.

There is a silence. But sometimes it's as dangerous not to speak.

There is a silence. But sometimes it's as dangerous not to speak. Yes, we are very happy, I murmur. I have to say something. What else can I say?

Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence.

One has to speak out and stand up for one's convictions. Inaction at a time of conflagration is inexcusable.