Top 51 Stand Up Speak Up Quotes
#1. No one can force you to stand up, speak up and make a difference. But if you back off and play along, please understand that whatever happens happened, at least in part, because you acquiesced.
Seth Godin
#2. If anyone makes you feel less than you are, for the color of you skin, for where you come from, for the gender of the person you love, for the religion you have faith in, stand up, speak up, roar. No silence till we are equal.
Thisuri Wanniarachchi
#3. Americans have called on moderates in Muslim countries to speak out against extremists, to stand up for the tolerance they say they believe in. We should all have the guts do the same at home.
Nicholas D. Kristof
#4. Most people don't know what it's like to stand up there and speak their mind. I have a venue to do that. I get paid to do that. It's not like I'm doing heavy lifting up there. It's not like I'm solving the world's problems. It's like I'm hanging out with a bunch of people and it's cool.
Dave Chappelle
#5. Heroes have a rough time because they stand up when they ought not to, they speak when they ought not to; they always have to go that extra mile.
George Foreman
#6. Donate! Volunteer! Speak up! Speak out! Stand Up! We All Can Contribute Something To Help End Abuse & Violence!
Timothy Pina
#7. To speak up and stand by my guns the entire time ... To stand by my methodology. That's why I kind of made myself the producer.
Richard Patrick
#8. Use your knowledge, and your heart, to stand up for those who can't stand, speak for those who can't speak, be a beacon of light for those whose lives have become dark.
Julie Andrews
#9. Let's stand up. Let's speak with pride about our morals and our values and redouble our effort to elect more conservative Republicans.
Rick Perry
#10. And my approach has always been to stand up and speak out on behalf of the economic rights of people.
Dennis Kucinich
#11. 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
#12. Certain things happened in the early church. Women who had never had any freedom suddenly have the ability to stand up and speak and be treated as equals within the life of the church.
Tony Campolo
#13. People will hate you for speaking the truth, but you've gotta learn to stand up to them, so don't be offended if I say something you don't like.
Eminem
#14. I got a certain type of respect in the streets, that's why they call me Tha Truth. And I gotta speak the truth. I gotta stand up for what's right. Every great person and true soldier has a great story to tell and this is a part of my story.
Trae Tha Truth
#15. 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
#17. If I did a talk show, this would allow me to speak on what's happening at that moment. I can be current, and I get to flex my stand-up muscle but stay at home without doing the traveling.
Wanda Sykes
#18. Stand up, speak out, and be bold. Screw political correctness. Never let them tell you to sit down and shut up.
Sarah Palin
#19. When we organize with one another, when we get involved, when we stand up and speak out together, we can create a power no government can suppress.
Howard Zinn
#20. I want to encourage young women to stand up for each other and speak up when they see others in a tough situation.
Amber Riley
#21. Voting is not only our right, it is our power. When we vote, we take back our power to choose, to speak up, and to stand with those who support us and each other.
Loung Ung
#22. Be an active bystander because sooner or later you or someone you love could be a victim too.
Shahla Khan
#23. The greater the monument, the greater the man. The stone the Greeks quarry for his grave is huge and white, stretching up to the sky. A C H I L L E S, it reads. It will stand for him, and speak to all who pass: he lived and died, and lives again in memory.
Madeline Miller
#24. I can not stop despair but I can stand up & speak truthfully against it to make it uncomfortable every time it knocks on my door!
Bullying Ben
Timothy Pina
#25. Our purpose now is to reclaim democracy itself. We are here to affirm that when Americans stand up and speak their minds and say America can do better, that is not a challenge to patriotism; it is the heart and soul of patriotism.
John F. Kerry
#26. One of the great reasons for the popularity of strikes is that they give the suppressed self a sense of power. For once the human tool knows itself a man, able to stand up and speak a word or strike a blow.
Charles Horton Cooley
#27. Speak up, stand up, and keep correcting the false perceptions. Stay true to your heart's views and keep chanting for peace and justice.
Suzy Kassem
#28. For me and my husband, one of my biggest peeves is that I can't stand for an old friend or a woman to walk in the room and just run up and speak to my husband, but they don't talk to me.
Ashton Shepherd
#29. Other people could stand up and speak to an assembly, apparently, without that dreadful feeling of pressure of personality; could say what they would as though they were speaking to only one person
William Golding
#30. We can all help turn the tide against bullying ... If we stand up and speak out strongly against it!
Timothy Pina
#31. What the world really needs is courageous parenting from mothers and fathers who are not afraid to speak up and take a stand.
Larry R. Lawrence
#32. The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.
George Jessel
#33. To create the needed change ... We must become angry enough to stand up & speak out against all ABUSE & INJUSTICE against Humanity! Wrong is Wrong and NEVER can be Right!
Timothy Pina
#34. One has to speak out and stand up for one's convictions. Inaction at a time of conflagration is inexcusable.
Mahatma Gandhi
#35. If you want to be seen, stand up.
If you want to be heard, speak up.
If you want to be appreciated, shut up.
Bill Cosby
#36. I will stand up and speak in my own voice and no man will ever silence me again.
Philippa Gregory
#37. You can be chased home or hit or called names or spit on, and it's over. You have the memory of it, but it's very different from the emotional and psychological experience of feeling invisible, of not learning the confidence to stand up in class and speak.
Chirlane McCray
#38. I am, like anybody else, full of contradictions and personality traits, and I don't know which ones to speak from as a stand-up or what aspects of myself to ask an audience to identify with.
Andy Daly
#39. Muslim women must stand up and speak out about who we are, what we believe and where we are going. I think we need to know that our counterparts in the west are also willing to listen and reciprocate.
Queen Rania Of Jordan
#40. We need to change attitudes. We can only change attitudes by working together. Government will do its bit, but I want you all to do your bit, too. So speak out, stand up against violence against women and girls, and that's the way we can eradicate it.
Theresa May
#41. Invent nothing, deny nothing, speak up, stand up, stay out of school.
David Mamet
#42. Remember that in the early days of the feminist movement, they refused to have a leader; different women would just stand up and speak. The early feminists were very careful to not put what was spontaneously arising back in the old bottle.
James Hillman
#43. We need to be willing to stand up and speak up for what we believe.
Benjamin Carson
#44. Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.
Thomas J. Watson Jr.
#45. Keep turning the pages,
go through the changes.
Reach up and reach out
and don't give in or give up.
Speak up and speak out
and stand up and stand out.
Keep turning the pages,
go through the changes.
Francesc Miralles
#46. Say not the days are evil.
Who's to blame? And fold the hands and say,
oh, shame!
Stand up! Speak out, and bravely,
in God's name, be strong!
Yolanda G. Guerra
#47. The price for standing up for Truth, no matter how severe, will always be less than the price our souls will be penalized for not speaking up for our conscience. There is no greater crime in the universe than silencing your conscience.
Suzy Kassem
#48. When you're silent, your silence condones it. Thus, whatever you believe in goes down the drain.
Jennifer Tindugan-Adoviso
#49. Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Richard Branson
#51. My fellow Americans, this is an amazing moment for me. To think that a once scrawny boy from Austria could grow up to become Governor of California and stand in Madison Square Garden to speak on behalf of the President of the United States that is an immigrant's dream. It is the American dream.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
