Speaking Out Quotes - Page 2

• Speaking Out is honest about some of the challenges posed by speaking out and looks at possible responses and coping strategies. By comparing notes, we can help guide each other through what can be challenging life experiences.

  Tara Moss

  Challenges, Honest, Helping

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• All I ask is this: Do something. Try something. Speaking out, showing up, writing a letter, a check, a strongly worded e-mail. Pick a cause – there are few unworthy ones. And nudge yourself past the brink of tacit support to action. Once a month, once a year, or just once...Even just learning enough about a subject so you can speak against an opponent eloquently makes you an unusual personage. Start with that. Any one of you would have cried out, would have intervened, had you been in that crowd in Bashiqa. Well thanks to digital technology, you’re all in it now.

  Joss Whedon

  Writing, Past, Technology

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• All great questions must be raised by great voices, and the greatest voice is the voice of the people - speaking out - in prose, or painting or poetry or music; speaking out - in homes and halls, streets and farms, courts and cafes - let that voice speak and the stillness you hear will be the gratitude of mankind.

  Robert Kennedy

  Gratitude, Home, Voice

  Robert Francis Kennedy (1967). “The Quotable Robert F. Kennedy”

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• I get a lot of people that are thanking me for speaking out about certain issues. I get people telling me, "If you don't like it here, then there's plenty of other countries to go to," which is hilarious to me. I don't take anything personal. A lot of people are blinded by their love for this country.

  Donte Stallworth

  Country, People, Plenty

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• I am really passionate about transparency and trans rights issues, so I embrace these opportunities to speak. I try to stay in touch with those who are prominent in both the trans and transparency movements, but more often than not, I am speaking out on a particular issue on my own. I certainly hope that people listen to me and think about these issues. But regardless of whether I had a public venue to speak in, I would still be passionate about them.

  Chelsea Manning

  Opportunity, Thinking, Issues

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I am plain-speaking out of both sides of my mouth.

  Mason Cooley

  Truth, Sides, Mouths

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• Most people in the media aren't bad people. They just go along to get along and it's the group culture and the conditioning. As soon as they see that things are wrong, some of them will start speaking out and making a stand.

  Alex Jones

  Media, People, Groups

  Source: www.dailykos.com

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• I think something happens only when people find that they are moved with others, find themselves linked or allied in new ways, showing up or speaking out in ways that resonate with one another. That resonating can be very compelling and lead to moving and speaking more emphatically and with sharper focus.

  Judith Butler

  Moving, Thinking, People

  Interview with Cihan Aksan and Jon Bailes, www.counterpunch.org. October 11, 2013.

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• 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.

  Jim Hightower

  Speaking Up, Democracy, Principles

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• Finally, fighting for gay rights, speaking out in various places and making friends, men and women, was great.

  George Weinberg

  Friends, Fighting, Gay

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• Because some people have sex with people of the same sex, an entire culture has been created, broadly speaking, out of oppression. Which in a rational world would not be an issue.

  Neil Tennant

  Sex, Issues, Talking

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A lot of people criticized me for speaking out, not long ago, about gay marriage. I could not remain silent any longer. It's the civil rights of our day. It's the issue of our day.

  Joe Biden

  Leadership, Gay, Rights

  "Biden dots speech with '16 themes" by Alexander Burns, www.politico.com. September 15, 2013.

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• The First Amendment was specifically designed for citizens to insult politicians. Libel laws were written to protect law students speaking out on political issues from getting called whores by Oxycontin addicts.

  Bill Maher

  Law, Oxycontin, Issues

  "Four Questions for Bill Maher". "Good Morning America" with Jake Tapper, www.yahoo.com. March 15, 2012.

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• When there is violence against any person in society, because he or she is different, it threatens us all. Only by speaking out are any of us safe.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Different, Safe, Violence

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• I dread specialists in power because they are specialists speaking outside of their special subject.

  C. S. Lewis

  Special, Dread, Subjects

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.350, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• The greatest part of each day, each year, each lifetime is made up of small, seemingly insignificant moments. Those moments may becooking dinner...relaxing on the porch with your own thoughts after the kids are in bed, playing catch with a child before dinner, speaking out against a distasteful joke, driving to the recycling center with a week's newspapers. But they are not insignificant, especially when these moments are models for kids.

  Barbara Coloroso

  Family, Children, Kids

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• Poetry and music are the best at the highest level of the human mind. Out of poetry, out of their need for poetry, human beings have developed the idea of God. And so when we sing, when we dance, when we speak poetry we are speaking out of God's mouth, each other out of the music from God's heart.

  Maya Angelou

  Heart, Ideas, Mind

  Source: blues.gr

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• A public role endures for the literary high-command, as sages and seers, speaking out on social and political issues.

  Tibor Fischer

  Issues, Political, Roles

  "Parallel Stories by Peter Nádas - review" by Tibor Fischer, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2011.

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• Zionism is only around 100 years old. It is the transformation from religion to nationalism, to materialism created by non-religious Jews who hated their religion. The reason why they use the name Israel, the Star of David, hijacking, stealing the identity of Judaism and the Jewish people is in order to gain a legitimacy for their existence that should lead people to say, 'oh, it is God given to them' and that they should use fear and intimidate people from speaking out against their actions because they will call those that do anti Semitic; it couldn't be anything further from the Truth.

  Yisroel Dovid Weiss

  Religious, Stars, Islamic

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• Genuine bravery for a writer... It is about calmly speaking the truth when everyone else is silenced, when the truth cannot be expressed. It is about speaking out with a different voice, risking the wrath of the state and offending everyone, for the sake of the truth, and the writer's conscience.

  Murong Xuecun

  Voice, Wrath, Offending

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• My view is that we stand up for treating the animals in a considerate way, for completely renouncing the eating of meat and also for speaking out against it. This is what I do myself. And in this way many a one becomes aware of a problem that was put forward so late.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Animal, Views, Way

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• I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that.

  George McGovern

  Regret, War, Guy

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• General Colin Powell shocked a lot of people in Washington by speaking out against President Bush's policies, saying that the world is beginning to doubt the moral basis of our fight against terrorism. That's what I think he said - it was hard to hear him because he was being hustled out of the room to his cell in Guantanamo Bay.

  Jay Leno

  Fighting, Thinking, Cells

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• WHAT ARE THE CONSEQUENCES when we go against our instincts? What are the consequences of not speaking out? What are the consequences of guilt, shame, and doubt?

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Doubt, Guilt, Shame

  Terry Tempest Williams (2012). “When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice”, p.107, Macmillan

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• In all my unhappiness I was moving, and suddenly, this moving became an expression, a speaking out

  Mary Wigman

  Moving, Expression, Unhappiness

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