Famous Quotes & Sayings

Camille Paglia

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.

Bev Perdue

I've always been me. I've always been very direct and have told the truth and have been very willing to stand up and speak out.

August Strindberg

When people refuse to speak out for too long, it's like water that's stagnant and starts to rot!

Dennis Kucinich

And my approach has always been to stand up and speak out on behalf of the economic rights of people.

Chanakya

The foolish wish to speak out what was spoken in secret by the master.

Chaka Khan

It's time for those of us who have a voice to speak out for life, for love and for justice using the same media we've used throughout our careers.

Ban Ki-moon

I am not a national leader. If I am a national leader I can speak out all that I want.

Arianna Huffington

Failure is not the opposite to success, it's a stepping stone to success. If our primary goal is to be approved of, then we are not going to take risks, we are not going to speak out, we are going to try to blend in.

Eli Roth

Anytime you're the first to speak out against something, there's going to be a backlash.

Anthony Romero

President Bush broke the law and lied to the American people when he unilaterally authorized secret wiretaps of U.S. citizens. But rather than focus on this constitutional crisis, Attorney General Gonzales is cracking down on critics of his friend and boss. Our nation is strengthened, not weakened, by those whistle-blowers who are courageous enough to speak out on violations of the law.

Edward Abbey

The majority of American writers today have chosen passive non-resistance to things as they are, producing sloughs of poetry about their personal angst and anomie, cascades of short stories and rivers of novels obsessed with the nuances of domestic relationships - suburban hanky-panky - chic boutique shopping mall literary soap opera. When they do speak out on matters of controversy they attack not the evils of our time but fellow writers who may insist on complaining.

Abu Bakar Bashir

You are right, but the weakness does not come from the millions of Muslims in the world. They do not mind being radical, they have no fear to speak out and to protest and to jihad.

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Albert Camus

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.

Anna Friel

These women need to feel that we're all aware of what they may be going through, to give them the confidence to speak out.

Anita Hill

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.

Alice McDermott

My parents were both first-generation Irish Catholics raised in Brooklyn. But it was more for me - it was that women of that generation were even less likely to express themselves, more likely to have that active interior life that they didn't dare speak out.So I was interesting in women of that era. I was interested in the language of that era. There's so much. And, certainly, this is cultural, so much there wasn't spoken about.

Desmond Tutu

If everyone who wants to see an end to poverty, hunger and suffering speaks out, then the noise will be deafening.

Daisaku Ikeda

Speak out tirelessly with conviction.

Cybill Shepherd

It's hard for women to talk about these things, and for the doctors to really talk about it too, and to even have the knowledge of what's going on. That's why I'm doing this and urging women to speak out and talk to their doctors frankly.

Cyndi Lauper

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.

Billy Graham

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.

Helen Prejean

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.

Jerry Greenfield

I like that Ben & Jerry's is willing to speak out about social and political issues that aren't always safe - but are the right thing to do.

Jim Hightower

If you don't speak out when it matters, when would it matter to speak out?

Frank R. Wolf

Scripture makes it clear to me that there is an obligation to speak out on behalf of those being persecuted.

Frank Serpico

Today it is becoming harder to speak out, with the inception of the Patriot Act, the president has legislated free speech to be a crime.

Gene Robinson

I will always speak out when someone says that a principle or a rule or a tradition trumps people.

Fannie Lou Hamer

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

Francis Collins

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

Howard Zinn

When we organize with one another, when we get involved, when we stand up and speak out together, we can create a power no government can suppress.

Ethel Kennedy

If you see something wrong, if you speak out...you can change it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

All names of good and evil are images; they do not speak out, they only hint. He is a fool who seeks knowledge from them.