Memorable Quotes About Speaking Up

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"If you don't speak up, your silence gives consent."
Unknown
"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."
Rudyard Kipling
"It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness."
Chinese Proverb
"You must do the things you think you cannot do."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"Those who stand for nothing fall for anything."
Alexander Hamilton
"We have to speak up for ourselves and for those who cannot."
Angela Davis
"The first step to change is awareness. The second step is acceptance."
Nathaniel Branden
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"If we are not allowed to express our thoughts, it is a crime against humanity."
Julius Nyerere
"Take action! An inch of movement will bring you closer to your goals than a mile of intention."
Jim Rohn
"Words can inspire, and words can destroy. Choose your words wisely."
Robin Sharma
"The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday's logic."
Peter Drucker
"When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time."
Lao Tzu
"There comes a time when silence is betrayal."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"In the face of injustice, silence is not an option."
Toni Morrison
"What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make."
Jane Goodall
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
Confucius
"Justice delayed is justice denied."
William E. Gladstone
"Silence is a source of great strength."
Lao Tzu
"If you don’t speak out, you are complicit."
Unknown
"Your silence will not protect you."
Audre Lorde
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it."
Nelson Mandela
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"We must not allow other people’s opinions to overrule our own."
Unknown
"It is not enough to be silent. We must also speak out."
Unknown
"When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have to speak up."
John Lewis
"I have not kept silent. I have not hidden. I have taken my pain and created art."
Lady Gaga
"The only way for evil to flourish is for good people to do nothing."
Edmund Burke
"Activism is the rent I pay for living on the planet."
Alice Walker
"We are all responsible for our actions, whether we act or fail to act."
Margaret Mead
"Dare to be wrong and to dream big."
Niels Bohr
"An individual can make a difference, and everyone should try."
John F. Kennedy
"People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people."
Alan Moore
"Speak up, even if your voice shakes."
Maggie Smith
"Never underestimate the power of a small group of committed people to change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
Margaret Mead
"The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality."
Dante Alighieri
"If we do not act, we will fail."
Unknown
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"Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right."
Joan Blades
"The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
Plato
"It is not enough to be a bystander in the world. You have to be a participant."
Eve Ensler
"Silence is compliance."
Unknown
"Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know."
Lao Tzu
"Freedom is never given; it is won."
A. Philip Randolph
"The worst thing you can do in a situation is nothing."
Tanya M. Gokey
"What is right is not always popular, and what is popular is not always right."
Albert Einstein
"Let us not confuse intolerance with speaking up."
Lydia Davis
"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"The worst injustice you can do is to stand by and watch."
Andy Biersack
"Sometimes you have to break the rules to set things right."
Unknown
"If you don't speak out now, you will regret it later."
Kerry Washington
"Words are powerful; if you change your words, you can change your mind."
Joyce Meyer
"If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary."
Jim Rohn
"One of the most important things you can do is to speak up when you see something wrong."
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
"Dare to speak your truth."
Unknown
"Echoes of silence are loud."
Aditya B. Patil
"We all have the power to speak up for what's right."
Malala Yousafzai
"In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place."
Mahatma Gandhi
"If you don’t speak out, you are supporting the oppressor."
Anonymous
"You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know."
William Wilberforce
"We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us."
Virginia Satir
"Speak your mind even if your voice shakes."
Maggie Smith
"Freedom of speech is a great idea, but we're in a democracy, and sometimes that freedom takes a back seat to civility."
Lily Tomlin
"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."
Winston S. Churchill
"The right to speak comes with the responsibility to listen."
Anonymous
"It’s not what we have in life, but who we have in our life that counts."
J. M. Laurence
"Everyone has a voice. Use yours!"
Anonymous
"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor."
Desmond Tutu
"Stand up for what is right, even if you are standing alone."
Anonymous
"The safest place to be is always the place where you speak truthfully."
Anonymous
"It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?"
Henry David Thoreau
"The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place."
George Bernard Shaw
"Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children."
Nelson Mandela
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
Oscar Wilde
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."
Thomas Jefferson
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
Edmund Burke
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes."
Maggie Smith
"I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year’s fashion."
Lillian Hellman
"To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity."
Nelson Mandela
"Freedom of speech does not protect you from the consequences of your speech."
Daniel Tosh
"If you don’t stand for something, you will fall for anything."
Malcolm X
"Your silence gives consent."
Plato
"The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable."
James A. Garfield
"The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud."
Coco Chanel
"A right delayed is a right denied."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get."
George Bernard Shaw
"It's not enough to be right; you have to be brave."
Unknown
"Courage is not the absence of fear but the triumph over it."
Nelson Mandela
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"An injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Your voice can change the world."
Barack Obama
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."
Edmund Burke
"Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed."
Walt Whitman
"It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness."
Chinese Proverb
"When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful."
Malala Yousafzai
"Silence is the ultimate weapon of power."
Charles de Gaulle
"To speak with purpose and clarity is to show the power of personal conviction."
Kofi Annan
"In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
George Orwell
"It is our choices, far more than our abilities, that show what we truly are."
J.K. Rowling
"Stand up for what is right even if you are standing alone."
Sophie Lauren
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