Top Speaks Out Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Speaks Out quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Louis Zukofsky
It was a pity that people did not risk enough to speak out in behalf of one another's happiness and their own.
- Louis Zukofsky
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Image of Stephen Stills
Speak out. You've got to speak out against the madness
- Stephen Stills
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Image of Ariel Winter
I want to continue to speak out on issues that matter to me. I want to have even more of a voice.
- Ariel Winter
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Image of Ariel Winter
People like to clap back at the people who speak out most.
- Ariel Winter
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Image of Alice McDermott
My parents were both first-generation Irish Catholics raised in Brooklyn. But it was more for me - it was that women of that generation were even less likely to express themselves, more likely to have that active interior life that they didn't dare speak out. So I was interesting in women of that era. I was interested in the language of that era. There's so much. And, certainly, this is cultural, so much there wasn't spoken about.
- Alice McDermott
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Image of Judy Collins
I was raised to speak out about politics and the world around me. I would do it whether I was in the public or not. It is the way I was taught. The American way
- Judy Collins
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Image of Juanita Millender-McDonald
It is difficult to get Latina and Asian women to speak out. We must make it clear it's not their problem, it's our problem. We need magazines like this one to keep talking about the issue. And know that we women in Congress are with you 100 percent.
- Juanita Millender-McDonald
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Image of Herblock
The press must speak out and, if the occasion arises, raise bloody hell.
- Herblock
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Image of Ethel Kennedy
If you see something wrong, if you speak out...you can change it.
- Ethel Kennedy
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Image of Anita Hill
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.
- Anita Hill
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Image of Fannie Lou Hamer
When I liberate myself, I liberate others. If you don't speak out ain't nobody going to speak out for you.
- Fannie Lou Hamer
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Image of Jim Hightower
If you don't speak out when it matters, when would it matter to speak out?
- Jim Hightower
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Image of Alveda King
When we see others victimized we must speak out. We have to seek justice for everybody.
- Alveda King
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Image of August Strindberg
When people refuse to speak out for too long, it's like water that's stagnant and starts to rot!
- August Strindberg
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Image of Tariq Ramadan
The Muslim contribution to the future of America is to not only speak out as Muslims, but to also speak out as citizens in the name of our common values. Our main contribution is to reconcile the American society with its own values, those that are not in contradiction to Islam. We have a duty of consistency.
- Tariq Ramadan
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Image of Friedrich Nietzsche
All names of good and evil are images; they do not speak out, they only hint. He is a fool who seeks knowledge from them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Image of Ron Paul
The government does not need to know more about what we are doing. We need to know more about what the government is doing. We should be thankful for individuals like Edward Snowden and Glenn Greenwald who see injustice being carried out by their own government and speak out, despite the risk. They have done a great service to the American people by exposing the truth about what our government is doing in secret.
- Ron Paul
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Image of Sarah Palin
Stand up, speak out, and be bold. Screw political correctness. Never let them tell you to sit down and shut up.
- Sarah Palin
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Image of Edward Abbey
The majority of American writers today have chosen passive non-resistance to things as they are, producing sloughs of poetry about their personal angst and anomie, cascades of short stories and rivers of novels obsessed with the nuances of domestic relationships - suburban hanky-panky - chic boutique shopping mall literary soap opera. When they do speak out on matters of controversy they attack not the evils of our time but fellow writers who may insist on complaining.
- Edward Abbey
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Image of Shannon Hale
Gerti didn’t ask for help.” Miri swallowed and tried to calm her quavering voice. “It was my fault.” “So it was. Now you all have learned that those who speak out of turn choose punishment for themselves and anyone they speak to.” “So if I speak to you, Tutor Olana, will you get the lashes?
- Shannon Hale
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Image of Camille Paglia
We must take the best from the left and the best from the right to devise new strategies for the global twenty-first century. The reluctance of liberal professors to speak out against rampant abuses committed on their side (e.g., suppression of free speech, the excesses of women's studies and French theory) has simply increased the power of the right.
- Camille Paglia
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Image of Barack Obama
We will not hesitate to speak out when we see actions that contradict those values.
- Barack Obama
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Image of Terry Tempest Williams
We have to speak out now on behalf of our community and on behalf of the land and say they're the same thing and say No, we are not rolling over and No, this is not a corporate enterprise. This is democracy in the fullest sense and we must have regard and reverence and those are the cornerstones of a just society.
- Terry Tempest Williams
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Image of Rachel Carson
Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent... It is, in the deepest sense, a privilege as well as a duty to speak out to many thousands of people.
- Rachel Carson
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Image of Desmond Tutu
If everyone who wants to see an end to poverty, hunger and suffering speaks out, then the noise will be deafening.
- Desmond Tutu
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Image of Ban Ki-moon
I am not a national leader. If I am a national leader I can speak out all that I want.
- Ban Ki-moon
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Image of Chanakya
The foolish wish to speak out what was spoken in secret by the master.
- Chanakya
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Image of Margaret Cho
Silence is so often applauded and those who speak out are often called tasteless.
- Margaret Cho
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Image of Albert Camus
When silence or tricks of language contribute to maintaining an abuse that must be reformed or a suffering that can be relieved, then there is no other solution but to speak out and show the obscenity hidden under the verbal cloak.
- Albert Camus
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Image of Leonardo DiCaprio
I feel a moral obligation to speak out at this key moment in human history - it is a moment for action.
- Leonardo DiCaprio
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Image of Mahatma Gandhi
One has to speak out and stand up for one's convictions. Inaction at a time of conflagration is inexcusable.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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Image of Anna Friel
These women need to feel that we're all aware of what they may be going through, to give them the confidence to speak out.
- Anna Friel
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Image of Lady Gaga
The Monster Ball is by nature a protest: A youth church experience to speak out and celebrate against all forms of discrimination + prejudice.
- Lady Gaga
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Image of Michael Bassey
Flattery does not encourage the perfect flow of love in the vein of your relationship. Be genuine and speak out what you feel for each other without hiding the painful truth.
- Michael Bassey
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Image of Arianna Huffington
Failure is not the opposite to success, it's a stepping stone to success. If our primary goal is to be approved of, then we are not going to take risks, we are not going to speak out, we are going to try to blend in.
- Arianna Huffington
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Image of Daisaku Ikeda
Speak out tirelessly with conviction.
- Daisaku Ikeda
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Image of Cyndi Lauper
Everyone's gotta have a voice, to be able to speak out. Left supresses right, right supresses left, and what's left and what's right? You know? It's America. You gotta be able to speak out. That's why people came here from all over the world: to have a fair shake. Not more than somebody else - the same.
- Cyndi Lauper
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Image of Bill Maher
It's so easy to demagogue the issue and make someone who speaks out against the internal-combustion engine sound like an insane communist, when the truth is that the internal-combustion engine is the biggest threat to my life in the next 25 years, in terms of what it's doing to our environment and how it's depleting the ozone layer and so forth.
- Bill Maher
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Image of Demi Lovato
I have to ask myself, Am I content with calling myself a feminist? Yes, because I speak out.
- Demi Lovato
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