Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

William Stafford

The world speaks everything to us. It is our only friend.

Charles Coody

The tournament has really grown. I think that speaks very well for the city.

Michael Redd

It speaks a lot about our team, because we've been up and down all year long.

It's my first time to see him in person. I'm going to take some of what he speaks about and try to put it in my game.

That speaks well of the team. But we still have a lot of work to do.

It really speaks a lot about them and their willingness to compete.

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.

He's got a personality that, sometimes, he speaks his mind. And, sometimes, it doesn't come out right.

Lady Gaga

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

Rachel Carson

Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent... It is, in the deepest sense, a privilege as well as a duty to speak out to many thousands of people...

Macklemore

You can only watch injustice go on for so long until you're compelled to say something. To speak out against it.

Juliette Binoche

Some words, you know, it's amazing but some words would come only in French, and when I speak French, it would only come in English. And so the adjustment is very difficult sometimes.

Judy Collins

I was raised to speak out about politics and the world around me. I would do it whether I was in the public or not. It is the way I was taught. The American way

Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a socialist.

Mark Haddon

Everyone has learning difficulties, because learning to speak French or understanding relativity is difficult.

Mark Twain

I can speak French but I cannot understand it.

Margaret Bourke-White

Life wanted faces that would express what we wanted to tell. Not just the unusual or striking face, but the face that would speak out the message from the printed page. I am always looking for some typical person or face that will tie the picture essay together in a human way.

Margaret Cho

Silence is so often applauded and those who speak out are often called tasteless.

Leonardo DiCaprio

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

Sean Connery

I unfortunately don't speak French, but my wife is now fluent in English, which really reflects rather badly on me.

John Poindexter

One of the reasons I continue to speak out is that the solutions to the counterterrorism problem involve other parts of the national security community - especially other elements of the Department of Defense, State, FBI, Homeland Security and the staff.

Theodore Hesburgh

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

James Russell Lowell

There are two kinds of genius. The first and highest may be said to speak out of the eternal to the present, and must compel its age to understand it; the second understands its age, and tells it what it wishes to be told.