Speaks Out Quotes

• Speak out. You've got to speak out against the madness

  Stephen Stills

  Madness, Speak

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• Some laws are wrong, and we have an obligation to speak out against those laws wherever they are.

  Julian McMahon

  Law, Speak, Obligation

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• I feel a moral obligation to speak out at this key moment in human history - it is a moment for action.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Keys, Moral, Action

  "Leonardo DiCaprio Named Messenger of Peace by U.N." by John Hendrickson, www.esquire.com. September 16, 2014.

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• If people are being downtrodden and mistreated, it's our obligation, it's our responsibility to speak out, not just for ourselves but for others.

  Alveda King

  Responsibility, People, Obligation

  Source: saynsumthn.wordpress.com

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• I believe one day a 'ban on gay marriage' will sound totally ridiculous. In the meantime, I will continue to speak out for equality for all of us.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Believe, Gay, One Day

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• An effective leader is willing to think about what's happening and how to understand what's going on. Facilitating flow and making others more conscious of it, the leader communicates an awareness of process to the group, making them more aware of their energies and options. One important principle is to keep track of who has not spoken. ... It's also important to notice when people do speak out but are not heard. Effective leaders practice patience, reminding themselves to wait and observe, remembering that there's always more going on in a group than we're consciously aware of.

  Diane Dreher

  Leadership, Thinking, Practice

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• I am hopeful that others who have suffered sexual harassment will not become discouraged by my experience, but instead will find the strength to speak out about this serious problem.

  Anita Hill

  Hopeful, Serious, Problem

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• One good reason for the popularity of "reductionism" among the philosophical outposts of the Western Establishment is that it can be, and is, used as a device for trying to take the wind, so to speak, out of the sails of Marxism. . . . In essence reductionism is a kind of anti-Marxist caricature of Marxist determinism. It is what anti-Marxists pretend that Marxist determinism is.

  Claud Cockburn

  Philosophical, Wind, Essence

  Claud Cockburn (1981). “Cockburn Sums Up: An Autobiography”, Quartet Books (UK)

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• The government does not need to know more about what we are doing. We need to know more about what the government is doing. We should be thankful for individuals like Edward Snowden and Glenn Greenwald who see injustice being carried out by their own government and speak out, despite the risk. They have done a great service to the American people by exposing the truth about what our government is doing in secret.

  Ron Paul

  Nsa, Government, People

  "Ron Paul: We need to know more about what the government is doing". www.campaignforliberty.org. June 10, 2013.

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• Beauty has so many charms, one knows not how to speak against it; and when it happens that a graceful figure is the habitation of a virtuous soul, when the beauty of the face speaks out the modesty and humility of the mind, and the justness of the proportion raises our thoughts up to the heart and wisdom of the great Creator, something may be allowed it,--and something to the embellishments which set it off; and yet, when the whole apology is read, it will be found at last that beauty, like truth, never is so glorious as when it goes the plainest.

  Laurence Sterne

  Beauty, Humility, Heart

  Laurence Sterne (1823). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: With a Life of the Author”, p.241

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• Every man who speaks out loud and clear is tinting the "Zeitgeist." Every man who expresses what he honestly thinks is true is changing the Spirit of the Times. Thinkers help other people to think, for they formulate what others are thinking. No person writes or thinks alone--thought is in the air, but its expression is necessary to create a tangible Spirit of the Times.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Writing, Men, Thinking

  Elbert Hubbard (1914). “So Here Then Cometh Pig-pen Pete; Or, Some Chums of Mine”

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• Power and those in control concede nothing ... without a demand. Hey never have and never will... Each and every one of us must keep demanding, must keep fighting, must keep thundering, must keep plowing, must keep on keeping things struggling, must speak out and speak up until justice is served because where there is no justice there is no peace.

  Frederick Douglass

  Wisdom, Struggle, Fighting

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• When I liberate myself, I liberate others. If you don't speak out ain't nobody going to speak out for you.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Speak, Ifs

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• The AIDS disease is caused by a virus, but the AIDS epidemic is not. The AIDS epidemic is fueled by stigma, by hate, by misinformation, by ignorance, by indifference. Science has accomplished miracles over the past 20 years, and science can now end this disease - but it cannot end the epidemic. We need more than medicine. We can do something about these things. We need to speak out about the changes we need to make in our society.

  Elton John

  Hate, Ignorance, Past

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• The officers do not beat the men; the officers and men receive equal treatment. Soldiers are free to hold meetings and speak out. Trivial formalities have been done away with and the accounts are open for all to inspect.

  Mao Zedong

  Men, Soldier, Done

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.84, Lulu.com

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• The devil is not fighting religion. He's too smart for that. He is producing a counterfeit Christianity, so much like the real one that good Christians are afraid to speak out against it. We are plainly told in the Scriptures that in the last days men will not endure sound doctrine and will depart from the faith and heap to themselves teachers to tickle their ears. We live in an epidemic of this itch, and popular preachers have developed “ear-tickling” into a fine art.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Teacher, Art

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• Everyone's gotta have a voice, to be able to speak out. Left supresses right, right supresses left, and what's left and what's right? You know? It's America. You gotta be able to speak out. That's why people came here from all over the world: to have a fair shake. Not more than somebody else - the same.

  Cyndi Lauper

  Voice, America, People

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• Better to remain silent and thought a fool, than to speak out and confirm that you didn't do the assigned readings before the strategic planning retreat.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Reading, Fool, Retreat

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• One has to speak out and stand up for one's convictions. Inaction at a time of conflagration is inexcusable.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Speak, Conviction, Inaction

  Mahatma Gandhi (1981). “Collected Works”

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• When silence or tricks of language contribute to maintaining an abuse that must be reformed or a suffering that can be relieved, then there is no other solution but to speak out and show the obscenity hidden under the verbal cloak.

  Albert Camus

  Silence, Abuse, Suffering

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.177, Vintage

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• We must take the best from the left and the best from the right to devise new strategies for the global twenty-first century. The reluctance of liberal professors to speak out against rampant abuses committed on their side (e.g., suppression of free speech, the excesses of women's studies and French theory) has simply increased the power of the right.

  Camille Paglia

  Abuse, Twenties, Excess

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.18, Vintage

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• Obama wanted to offer his support to birth control activist Sandra Fluke. He wanted to express his disappointment that she has been the subject of inappropriate personal attacks and thank her for exercising her rights as a citizen to speak out on an issue of public policy.

  Jay Carney

  Disappointment, Exercise, Rights

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• I realize that I cannot stand by silently as my government executes its citizens. If I do not speak out and resist, I am an accomplice.

  Helen Prejean

  Government, Citizens, Realizing

  Helen Prejean (2011). “Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States”, p.115, Vintage

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• We will not hesitate to speak out when we see actions that contradict those values.

  Barack Obama

  Action, Speak, Values

  "Obama announces re-establishment of U.S.-Cuba diplomatic ties" By Eugene Scott, www.cnn.com. July 1, 2015.

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• But I'm here to say that when we do speak out, we're going to do so because the United States of America does believe, and will always stand for, a certain set of universal values.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, America, United States

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