Raise Your Voice Quotes

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  Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.

  William Faulkner

  Truth, Honesty, Lying

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• Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Spiritual

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• My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument."

  Desmond Tutu

  Morning, Father, Voice

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• When you know you are of worth, you don't have to raise your voice, you don't have to become rude, you don't have to become vulgar; you just are. And you are like the sky is, as the air is, the same way water is wet. It doesn't have to protest.

  Maya Angelou

  Air, Sky, Voice

  "America's Renaissance Woman". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 22, 1997.

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• So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed. If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.

  William Faulkner

  Honesty, Lying, Men

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• I found you could raise your voice and talk out loud in the world.

  John J. McCloy

  Voice, Found You, World

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• Raise your words, not your voice.

  Rumi

  Voice, Raises

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• You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument.

  Samuel Johnson

  Communication, Yelling, Voice

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• If you choose to use your status and influence to raise your voice on behalf of those who have no voice; if you choose to identify not only with the powerful, but with the powerless; if you retain the ability to imagine yourself into the lives of those who do not have your advantages, then it will not only be your proud families who celebrate your existence, but thousands and millions of people whose reality you have helped transform for the better. We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.

  J. K. Rowling

  Powerful, Reality, Voice

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• My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument." Good sense does not always lie with the loudest shouters, nor can we say that a large, unruly crowd is always the best arbiter of what is right.

  Desmond Tutu

  Father, Lying, Voice

  Desmond Tutu, Naomi Tutu (1989). “The words of Desmond Tutu”, Newmarket Pr

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• Do not give a war cry, do not raise your voices, do not say a word until the day I tell you to shout. Then shout!

  Joshua

  War, Voice, Giving

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• You're a man, but the day you raise your voice to your mother, you're not anymore.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Mother, Men, Voice

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• Do your own thing on your own terms and get what you came here for.

  Oliver James

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Doing Your Own Thing

  "Fictional character: Jay Corgan". "Raise Your Voice", www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• Don't raise your voice, improve your argument."
  
  [Address at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, Johannesburg, South Africa, 23 November 2004]

  Desmond Tutu

  Voice, Addresses, Foundation

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• I'll do a deal with you McFarlane," he said. "You can exist. And you can even have coffee. But if you raise your voice or make any sudden movements, I shall die. And that'll show you." Seb shrugged in return, hiding how pleased he was pretty badly. "Fair enough.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Coffee, Voice, Movement

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2010). “The Demon's Covenant”, p.308, Simon and Schuster

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• People don't take you seriously if you scream, if you raise your voice, especially when you're a 19-year-old girl.

  Taylor Swift

  Girl, Years, Voice

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Backing down can become a way of life.

  Oliver James

  Way, Backing Down

  "Fictional character: Jay Corgan". "Raise Your Voice", www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• The point is to raise your voice and be heard to God. You really are just celebrating being in the presence of other people that believe the same things you believe.

  Valerie June

  Believe, Voice, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Let me tell you something: when you dance, you are the greatest dancer who has ever lived. And when you sing, you will have the courage to raise your voice to the heavens, knowing that you may never get an answer.

  Emma Forrest

  Voice, Knowing, Dancer

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• It's a quiet place, so people talk quietly," said Naoko. She made a neat pile of fish bones at the edge of her plate and dabbed at her mouth with a handkerchief. "There's no need to raise your voice here. You don't have to convince anybody of anything, and you don't have to attract anyone's attention.

  Haruki Murakami

  Voice, People, Needs

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• You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler. Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. Let the world around you fade. Best to close the door; the TV is always on in the next room. Tell the others right away, "No, I don't want to watch TV!" Raise your voice -- they won't hear you otherwise -- "I'm reading! I don't want to be disturbed!" Maybe they haven't heard you, with all that racket; speak louder, yell: "I'm beginning to read Italo Calvino's new novel!" Or if you prefer, don't say anything: just hope they'll leave you alone.

  Italo Calvino

  Reading, Winter, Night

  Italo Calvino (2010). “If On A Winter's Night A Traveller”, p.3, Random House

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• Sing to me," she said. "That would be valiant, to raise your voice in this dark, lonely place, and it will be useful as well. Sing to me, sing loudly-drown out my dreams, keep me from remembering whatever wants me to remember it. Sing to me, my lord prince, if it please you. It may not seem a hero's task, but I would be glad of it.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Dream, Lonely, Hero

  Peter S. Beagle (2003). “A fine and private place: The last unicorn”

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