Top 100 Quotes About Speak Out
#1. We're trying to build a platform utilizing the Internet that allows the good American people to speak out about their frustration about the polarized country that we live in politically.
Hamilton Jordan
#2. You don't want your credibility banana to turn brown, but you do want to speak out about what you believe in.
Bradley Whitford
#3. I've never heard God speak out loud to me. That's not an experience I have had.
Francis Collins
#4. I oppose the war in Vietnam because I love America. I speak out against it not in anger but with anxiety and sorrow in my heart, and above all with a passionate desire to see our beloved country stand as a moral example of the world.
Martin Luther
#5. I'm very grateful for the platform that I've had in my life to speak out about the things I care about.
Anne Heche
#6. When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
Abbie Hoffman
#7. You can only watch injustice go on for so long until you're compelled to say something. To speak out against it.
Macklemore
#8. If you don't speak out now when it matters, when would it matter for you to speak out?
Jim Hightower
#9. Children need to learn that silence is the home of spirit. All other voices speak out loud, but spirit communicates without making a sound.
Deepak Chopra
#10. I will always speak out when someone says that a principle or a rule or a tradition trumps people.
Gene Robinson
#11. People say, 'If you don't vote, then you don't have a right to say anything. But nine times outta 10, I pay more taxes than they do - so even if I don't vote, I still have the right to speak out.
Lupe Fiasco
#12. If there weren't so many interesting conversations taking place inside my head, I might venture to speak out loud.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#13. I think I need to accept the fact that I am where I am today because fans have shared my music illegally and legally, but I wouldn't be here today without the Internet, so I can't speak out against it.
Ed Sheeran
#14. We must have our say, not through violence, aggression or fear. We must speak out calmly and forcefully. We shall only be able to enter the new world era if we agree to engage in dialogue with the other side.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
#15. There are some natures which never grow large enough to speak out and say a bad act is a bad act, until they have inquired into the politics or the nationality of the man who did it.
Mark Twain
#16. I'm just singing for the women who think they can't speak out. Can't a man alive mistreat me, 'cause I know who I am.
Alberta Hunter
#17. Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#18. Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a socialist.
Martin Niemoller
#19. 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.
Shakira
#20. I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand the idea of freedom of speech, and don't understand that it's the responsibility of the citizen to speak out.
Roger Ebert
#22. And my approach has always been to stand up and speak out on behalf of the economic rights of people.
Dennis Kucinich
#23. But if there be an hereafter,And that there is, conscience, uninfluenc'dAnd suffer'd to speak out, tells every man,Then must it be an awful thing to die;More horrid yet to die by one's own hand.
Robert Blair
#24. The least I can do is speak out for the hundreds of chimpanzees who, right now, sit hunched, miserable and without hope, staring out with dead eyes from their metal prisons. They cannot speak for themselves.
Jane Goodall
#25. Then they came for me - and there was no one left to speak out for me.
Martin Niemoller
#26. When you know something in your heart, you better not be quiet about it. You better speak out about it.
Zach Wamp
#27. I believe one day a 'ban on gay marriage' will sound totally ridiculous. In the meantime, I will continue to speak out for equality for all of us.
Ellen DeGeneres
#28. Anyone who refuses to speak out off campus does not deserve to be listened to on campus.
Theodore Hesburgh
#29. Hate can only exist where people refuse to speak out against it.
Yasmine Galenorn
#30. I'm absolute attacking my own instinct for politeness, but I think I admire artists who just speak out or who are strong, so it's very hard.
Stephen Fry
#31. When you complain, you make yourself a victim. When you speak out, you are in power.
Eckhart Tolle
#32. I firmly believe today that the only way to stop violence against women is to speak out and refused to be silenced.
Zainab Salbi
#33. I've always been me. I've always been very direct and have told the truth and have been very willing to stand up and speak out.
Bev Perdue
#34. I think, if you're in the United States, we've seen people trying to speak out in different ways and trying to make themselves heard about the United States' failure to move on generationally, given the long-festering wound of our history around race.
Joshua Oppenheimer
#35. I think it's appropriate in America for anyone to speak out and say what their reaction is to the president's State of the Union speech.
Jim Jordan
#36. I do think that we are facing a crisis in our democracy. As true patriots, each and every one of us has to speak up, speak out, and change those in charge. Our democracy depends upon it.
Robert Greenwald
#37. As women, we must speak out, speak up, say no to our inheritance of loss and yes to a future of women-led dialogue about women's rights and value.
Zainab Salbi
#38. I am not a national leader. If I am a national leader I can speak out all that I want.
Ban Ki-moon
#39. It's important for all people, and not just people in bands, to speak out on social justice issues. That means journalists or plumbers have just as much of a responsibility to do that as artists.
Serj Tankian
#40. People with virtue must speak out; People who speak are not all virtuous.
Confucius
#41. The key.. will be a new public awareness of how serious is the threat to the global environment. Those who have a vested interest in the status quo will probably continue to be able to stifle any meaningful change until enough citizens.. are willing to speak out.
Al Gore
#42. The foolish wish to speak out what was spoken in secret by the master.
Chanakya
#43. To the American people I say, awaken to what is happening. It is the duty of each citizen to be vigilant, to protect liberty, to speak out, left and right and disagree lest be trampled underfoot by misguided zealotry and extreme partisanship.
Robert Byrd
#44. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a trade unionist.
Martin Niemoller
#45. The right to enjoy property without unlawful deprivation, no less that the right to speak out or the right to travel is, in truth, a "personal" right.
Potter Stewart
#46. I am afraid the church is trying to speak out on too many issues that really do not concern the church. There are certain issues we know to be wrong - racial injustice, crime, gambling, dishonesty, pornography. On these matters we must thunder forth as the prophets of God.
Billy Graham
#47. Anytime you're the first to speak out against something, there's going to be a backlash.
Eli Roth
#48. Remember to use your vote. Remember to speak out and feel empowered.
Sarah Gavron
#49. Even at age 10, I already knew that I was different from most people. My anxiety disorder was still years from being diagnosed, but it affected me quite deeply. I was too afraid to speak out in class, too nervous to make real friends.
Jenny Lawson
#50. Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out.
Lech Walesa
#51. When you become healthy, courageous, and hopeful, following your conscience becomes much easier. When people are healthy, courageous, and hopeful, it's difficult to bend their mind and will. They will speak out what they believe, and stand up and do what is right even when it means a loss to them.
Ilchi Lee
#52. If there are still men who really want to live in this world, they should first dare to speak out, to laugh, to cry, to be angry, to accuse, to fight-that they may at least cleanse this accursed place of its accursed atmosphere!
Lu Xun
#53. To be political means to speak out, to risk being called 'catty', or worse. I don't hear men worrying about whether they may be right or not. They enjoy the fight, whether it is with words or fists. Women still tend to shy away from controversy, to be uncomfortable with competition.
Madeleine M. Kunin
#54. He was looking for programs on which he might be allowed to appear. But it was too early in the evening for programs that allowed people with peculiar opinions to speak out. It was only a little after eight o'clock, so all the shows were about silliness or murder.
Kurt Vonnegut
#55. Authenticity always and absolutely carries a demand and duty: you must speak out, to the best of your ability, and shake the spiritual tree, and shine your headlights into the eyes of the complacent. You must let that radical realization rumble through your veins and rattle those around you.
Ken Wilber
#56. Poets should speak out against what we see as the assault against our Constitution and the warmongering that's going on. I'm perfectly willing to lay down my life for my Constitution, but I am not willing to take a life for it or any other reason because I think killing people is counterproductive.
Sam Hamill
#57. I don't know what's more embarrassing, these musicians and actors talking about politics in interviews or the media actually giving them credibility about it. It's absurd that a celebrity could speak out on the economy or politics with no more justification than a hit album or a movie.
Paul Stanley
#58. My business in life has been to think and learn, and to speak out with absolute freedom what I have thought and learned. The freedom is itself a positive and never-failing enjoyment to me, after the bondage of my early life.
Harriet Martineau
#59. I love when people quote me. It makes me feel that my words have meaning. People give words power. When they speak out for things they feel, we all become alive.
Jennifer Megan Varnadore
#60. Oh!s little bird told us,' said Miss Browning. Molly knew that little bird from her childhood, and had always hated it, and longed to wring its neck. Why could not people speak out and say that they did not mean to give up the name of their informant?
Elizabeth Gaskell
#61. One who has come to this country as a mature person may have a keen eye for everything peculiar and characteristic. I believe he should speak out freely on what he sees and feels, for by so doing he may perhaps prove himself useful.
Albert Einstein
#62. The country - or the government - is headed for bankruptcy. So we're going to be continuing to speak out against corporate welfare as something that hurts everybody except those direct beneficiaries.
Charles Koch
#63. It doesn't matter that Bush scares the hell out of me. What matters is that he scares the hell out of a lot of very important people in Washington who can't speak out, in the military, in the intelligence community.
Seymour Hersh
#64. Music can speak louder than words, and I will use my music to speak out on behalf of children everywhere.
Judy Collins
#65. We will not hesitate to speak out when we see actions that contradict those values.
Barack Obama
#66. is also time for a final break with our theologically grounded reserve about whatever is being done by the state-which really only comes down to fear. "Speak out for those who cannot in the church today still remembers that this is the very least the Bible asks of us in such times as these?
Keith Clements
#67. Speak out for those who cannot speak - who in the church today realizes that this is the very least that the Bible requires of us?
Eric Metaxas
#68. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls. The least admixture of a lie-for example, the taint of vanity, the least attempt to make a good impression, a favorable appearance-will instantly vitiate the effect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#69. As a Jew, I was taught that it was ethically imperative to speak up and to speak out against arbitrary state violence. That was part of what I learned when I learned about the Second World War and the concentration camps.
Judith Butler
#70. Warish Shah I call out to you, Rise from your grave, speak out and turn, Another page of the Book of Love
Amrita Pritam
#71. 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.
Paul Robeson
#72. It's in our nature to make a religion, so to speak, out of anything we don't understand, but it is simply advanced technology.
Jim Sparks
#73. There's such a stigma around girls' periods, and women's sexuality - girls can't speak out for themselves or be who they want to be. I think that coming from the social platform that I have, I try to be a positive influence, and this was something that I felt needed to be seen and heard.
Chloe Grace Moretz
#74. The American president has a peculiar leadership responsibility to speak out for freedom.
Ted Cruz
#75. Never speak out of anger, Never act out of fear, Never choose from impatience, But wait ... and peace will appear.
Guy Finley
#76. Just because your down does not mean you have to be out. As long as you have a voice left~Use it to speak out against all Abuse,Violence & Injustice!
Timothy Pina
#77. 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
#78. Snowden's itinerary does, however, seem to bear the fingerprints of Julian Assange. Assange was often quick to criticise the US and other western nations when they abused human rights. But he was reluctant to speak out against governments that supported his personal efforts to avoid extradition.
Luke Harding
#79. Many people feel he did cross a line in a way he hadn't even done before and also that Republicans had to speak out because they believe Trump poses a danger to the party.
Mara Liasson
#80. As someone who loves football, I will continue to speak out frankly about FIFA's problems.
Chung Mong-joon
#81. On top of dealing with the emotional trauma associated with conscious and unconscious recalling, you must deal with the possibility of no one believing you or making you doubt your experiences. When women speak out about their abusers, they have to deal with the police and society not believing them
Malebo Sephodi
#82. Dave Camp has been very much influenced by, and often guided by, the radicalization of the Republican Party ... and too often failed to speak out.
Sander Levin
#83. to the child, the Father all for the child. We shall understand how Father and child, the Thine and the Our, are all one, and how the heart that begins its prayer with the God-devoted Thine, will have the power in faith to speak out the Our too. Such prayer will, indeed, be the
Andrew Murray
#84. The question is not if the candidate's heart is favorable to Christianity, but if he has Christ as his starting point even for politics, and will speak out His name!
Abraham Kuyper
#85. Girl power to me means being brave enough to take that first step and to speak out and be yourself.
Katherine McNamara
#86. When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.
Billy Graham
#87. But courage was growing in me too. Little by little it was getting harder and harder for me not to speak out.
Anne Moody
#88. There are people out there who don't like me, and that's because I speak out the way I feel.
Nydia Velazquez
#89. There are kinds of pain that you can't speak out loud.
Jodi Picoult
#90. With Russia about to hold the Winter Games in Sochi, the country is open to pressure. American and world leaders must speak out against Mr. Putin's attacks and the violence they foster. The Olympic Committee must demand the retraction of these laws under threat of boycott.
Harvey Fierstein
#91. What I always wanted to do when I was a kid was to speak out and help people which I continue to do afterwards.
Emmanuel Jal
#92. I think that the more people who speak out, and say things and take stands on positions that will better our community, the better off each and every other individual artist or otherwise, will be.
Gil Scott-Heron
#93. You are right, but the weakness does not come from the millions of Muslims in the world. They do not mind being radical, they have no fear to speak out and to protest and to jihad.
Abu Bakar Bashir
#94. Speak out, educate, do not be intimidated by the apologists, and do not let extreme racism be mainstreamed. Hopefully there will come a time when we don't need to tell our kids that Halloween is no excuse for hate, and that blackface has no place in a civilized society.
Christine Pelosi
#95. I would love to support Hillary for president if she would come out against the travesty in Iraq. But I don't think she can speak out against the occupation because she supports it.
Cindy Sheehan
#96. Speak out. You've got to speak out against the madness
Stephen Stills
#97. In the 'west' success is defined in purely material terms. He with the most money wins ... We should question, speak out and work for a better society with a whole different definition of what is deemed a successful artistic life.
Mark A. Brennan
#98. When people refuse to speak out for too long, it's like water that's stagnant and starts to rot!
August Strindberg
#99. Hearing the Beastie Boys speak out against sexism made me feel like if these men who had once sung about getting girls to 'do the laundry' and 'clean up my room' could understand, maybe the rest of the world would follow suit. It made me hopeful in the best way.
Jessica Valenti
#100. 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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