Speaking Up Quotes

Speaking Up Quote of the day

Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.

shall I, for fear of feeble man who shall die, hold my peace? Shall I for fear of scoffs and frowns, refrain my tongue? Ah, no!

I have one thing in common with the emerging black nations of Africa: We both have voices, and we are discovering what we can do with them.

[To the bishop who suggested the widowed queen now consider herself 'as married to Christ':] That's what I call twaddle!

Let's acknowledge the difference between speaking up with intention and speaking up for attention.

My seat has been the seat of kings, and I will have no rascal to succeed me.

So now is the time, more than ever, for those who truly value all the principles of democracy, especially including dissent, to be the most forceful in speaking up, standing up and speaking out.

[To the heckler who said, 'If you were my wife I'd poison you':] No, you wouldn't. I'd do it myself.

There was no one left to speak for me.

Don't make it necessary for me to complain about you to Christ crucified. (There is no one else I can complain to, since there is no one greater than you on earth.

you must cry out if you want help. It is no use whatsoever to suffer in silence. Who will succour the drowning man if he does not clamour for his life?

Calvin: Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we can think faster than we speak? Hobbes: Probably so we can think twice.

thinking beings have an urge to speak, speaking beings have an urge to think.

Choosing with integrity means finding ways to speak up that honor your reality, the reality of others, and your willingness to meet in the center of that large field. It’s hard sometimes.

Wherever you find a wife and mother-in-law slugging it out, you'll find a son who's not speaking up to either his mother or his wife.

I am glad to see the wheels are moving at last toward comprehensive immigration reform after last year's election. I am glad that immigrants are speaking up.

I was raised on the values of speaking up and making a positive difference in a very political family that believed in the importance of public service.

Whether that's speaking up in your job or asking for a promotion or saying, 'I think I can do that.' Using your voice in ways that might initially scare you. That can be being an architect of change.

In order to create an alternative an oppressed group must at once shatter the self-reflecting world which encircles it and, at the same time, project its own image onto history.

More women speaking up and seizing the helm of power can create its own momentum. It can change the culture that helps perpetuate those external forces.

You can be the outcast or be the backlash of somebody's lack of love. Or you can start speaking up.

It's very often the artist who gives a voice to the voiceless by speaking up when no one else will.

What makes me vulnerable is speaking up about topics that may be controversial to others.

I've learned the importance of speaking up for myself and voicing my opinions and my ideas. I'm definitely a shy person.

Speaking up for America has become a lonely ordeal.

For every time we regret keeping still, there are about ten times we regret speaking up.

There's something so healthy about young people speaking up in unity.

I wouldn't call it a silver lining, but with more women speaking up, online harassment is beginning to be taken more seriously.

What good are words if no one believes them?

I am strong and human with a mouth that works like a man’s and a more intelligible brain, and I demand to be heard.

...it only takes one voice, at the right pitch, to start an avalanche.

It’s not unpatriotic to denounce an injustice committed on our behalf, perhaps it’s the most patriotic thing we can do.

Sometimes Truth cannot be silenced.

Speaking up is important. Yet to speak up without listening is like banging pots and pans together: Even if it gets you attention, it’s not going to get you respect.

But you know all about that, being sorry and having no words to say something when you know you should but you just can't

To say nothing is saying something. You must denounce things you are against or one might believe that you support things you really do not.