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• We do not have many intellectuals who can speak out for us internationally. We have no writers who are recognized, respected and loved outside the Arab world.

  Tahar Ben Jelloun

  World, Speak, Arab World

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• Anyone who refuses to speak out off campus does not deserve to be listened to on campus.

  Theodore Hesburgh

  Doe, Campus, Refuse

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• When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.

  Billy Graham

  Issues, Race, Church

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• I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand the idea of freedom of speech, and don't understand that it's the responsibility of the citizen to speak out.

  Roger Ebert

  Responsibility, Ideas, Freedom Of Speech

  Interview With Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. August 1, 2003.

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• To the American people I say, awaken to what is happening. It is the duty of each citizen to be vigilant, to protect liberty, to speak out, left and right and disagree lest be trampled underfoot by misguided zealotry and extreme partisanship.

  Robert Byrd

  People, Liberty, Citizens

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• Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out.

  Lech Walesa

  Fall, Silence, Veils

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• Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Deeds, Action, Speak

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• You don't want your credibility banana to turn brown, but you do want to speak out about what you believe in.

  Bradley Whitford

  Believe, Want, Bananas

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• Gerti didn’t ask for help.” Miri swallowed and tried to calm her quavering voice. “It was my fault.” “So it was. Now you all have learned that those who speak out of turn choose punishment for themselves and anyone they speak to.” “So if I speak to you, Tutor Olana, will you get the lashes?

  Shannon Hale

  Punishment, Voice, Faults

  Shannon Hale (2010). “Princess Academy”, p.46, A&C Black

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• Hate can only exist where people refuse to speak out against it.

  Yasmine Galenorn

  Hate, People, Refuse

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• The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured. Those special people who speak out in such a way as to shake up not only the self-assurance of their enemies, but the complacency of their friends, are precious catalysts for change.

  Howard Zinn

  Self, Catalyst For Change, Ideas

  Howard Zinn (2010). “You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times”, p.33, Beacon Press

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• Many are whispering that Voldemort must be behind it. However, that is the point: They whisper. They daren’t confide in each other, not knowing whom to trust; they are scared to speak out, in case their suspicions are true and their families are targeted. Yes, Voldemort is playing a very clever game. Declaring himself might have provoked open rebellion: Remaining masked has created confusion, uncertainty, and fear.

  J. K. Rowling

  Clever, Knowing, Games

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  The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.

  Jane Goodall

  Inspirational, Motivational, Animal

  FaceBook post by Dr. Jane Goodall from Aug 26, 2016

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• Even though it hurt, there are kinds of pain you couldn't speak out loud.

  Jodi Picoult

  Hurt, Pain, Kind

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• I've never met a girl who thinks like you." "A lot of people tell me that," she said, digging at a cuticle. "But it's the only way I know how to think. Seriously. I'm just telling you what I believe. It's never crossed my mind that my way of thinking is different from other people's. I'm not trying to be different. But when I speak out honestly, everybody thinks I'm kidding or playacting. When that happens, I feel like everything is such a pain!

  Haruki Murakami

  Girl, Pain, Believe

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• The Monster Ball is by nature a protest: A youth church experience to speak out and celebrate against all forms of discrimination + prejudice.

  Lady Gaga

  Church, Monsters, Prejudice

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• Artistic symbols and myths speak out of the primordial, preconscious realm of the mind which is powerful and chaotic. Both symbol and myth are ways of bringing order and form into this chaos.

  Rollo May

  Powerful, Order, Mind

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• I've never heard God speak out loud to me. That's not an experience I have had.

  Francis Collins

  Speak, Loud, Heard

  Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. July 6, 2006.

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• So, the gods don't hand out all their gifts at once, not build and brains and flowing speech to all. One man may fail to impress us with his looks but a god can crown his words with beauty, charm, and men look on with delight when he speaks out. Never faltering, filled with winning self-control, he shines forth at assembly grounds and people gaze at him like a god when he walks through the streets. Another man may look like a deathless one on high but there's not a bit of grace to crown his words. Just like you, my fine, handsome friend.

  Homer

  Winning, Men, Self

  Homer (1997). “The Odyssey”, p.284, Penguin

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• Every time we turn our heads the other way when we see the law flouted, when we tolerate what we know to be wrong, when we close our eyes and ears to the corrupt because we are too busy or too frightened, when we fail to speak up and speak out, we strike a blow against freedom and decency and justice.

  Robert Kennedy

  Eye, Blow, Law

  Remarks before the Joint Defense Appeal of the American Jewish Committee and the Anti-Defamation League of the B'nai B'rith, Chicago, Illinois, June 21, 1961.

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• People with virtue must speak out; People who speak are not all virtuous.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

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• If untimely death came only those who deserved that fate, Keturah, where would choice be? No one would do good for its own sake, but only to avoid an early demise. No one would speak out against evil because of his own courageous soul, but only to live another day. The right to choose is man's great gift, but one thing is not his to choose--the time and means of death.

  Martine Leavitt

  Mean, Fate, Men

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• It was a pity that people did not risk enough to speak out in behalf of one another's happiness and their own.

  Louis Zukofsky

  People, Risk, Pity

  Louis Zukofsky (1961). “It was”

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• The poor are always prophetic. As true prophets always point out, they reveal God's design. That is why we should take time to listen to them. And that means staying near them, because they speak quietly and infrequently; they are afraid to speak out, they lack confidence in themselves because they have been broken and oppressed. But if we listen to them, they will bring us back to the essential.

  Jean Vanier

  Mean, Broken, Design

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• I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women.

  Ruth Benedict

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strong Women

  Ruth Benedict (2011). “An Anthropologist at Work”, p.140, Transaction Publishers

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