Speaking Out Quotes

“It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent”
― Madeleine K. Albright

“Children are supposed to be free spirits and dream chasers, thinking of limitless opportunities. They are supposed to be filled with light that shines with happiness and joy that shouldn’t be dimmed or filled with darkness and fear.”
― CHARLENA E JACKSON

“Bullying is the "silent killer". Bullying shouldn’t be taken lightly. Our children deserves to be heard.”
― CHARLENA E JACKSON

“Don't worry. You'll find your message in your mess.”
― Richie Norton

“There are no new pains.”
― Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

“Yes, you can make a difference! You can speak on behalf of those who are voiceless.”
― E.N. Supen, Turning Point

“Do not be silent; there is no limit to the power that may be released through you.”
― Howard Thurman, Deep Is the Hunger

“We can learn to work and speak when we are afraid in the same way we have learned to work and speak when we are tired.”
― Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

“Sometimes Truth cannot be silenced.”
― Rachel L. Schade, Silent Kingdom

“I think silence is one of the failures of people today. When they see an injustice or intolerance, and they stay silent - that's the worst thing.”
― Anonymous

“You try to separate yourselves from history. You pretend its ugliness could never happen where you are. But it can...and it does, when normal people, en mass, allow worse and worse shit to go down because either they're too ignorant to understand or they're being corrupted by the powers that control the country. That's how this starts, that's how it gets too far. PLEASE see the signs. Please. This is human nature...to miss the boat out of fear or anger about others "taking what's ours" and so we allow (or cheer on) heinousness one step at a time until, before you know it, you're living in a nightmare of epic proportions and history sees you as the villain you became.

DON'T BECOME A VILLAIN. BE THE VOICE THAT BREAKS THE INSANITY OPEN.”
― Jennifer DeLucy

“The greatest talent one can have is learning when to speak and when to not.”
― Bryant A. Loney, Sea Breeze Academy

“I think it's important that scared gay kids who aren't out yet see hate speech challenged.”
― J.K. Rowling

“You are the Worst Kind of Animal. A Butcher by Day and a Pussy Cat by Night.”
― Monroe Ariel, Her OutSpoken Lips: A Collection of Poems Through the Eyes of a Woman Pushed to the Edge Part II

“What good are words if no one believes them?”
― Rachel L. Schade, Silent Kingdom

“But no matter what happens, I spoke up, made a voice for myself, freed from the haunting memories that have owned me for the last six years. I found my courage.”
― Jessica Sorensen, The Redemption of Callie & Kayden

“Your voice could go to where your feet could not go.”
― Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance

“I told myself being a Perez meant more than being Cuban, that my responsibility to my family, to do what was expected, to be the woman my parents wanted me to be meant more than fighting for what I believed in, for speaking out against Batista's tyranny.

And the whole time we were pretending our way of life was fine, the "paradise" we'd created was really a fragile deal with a mercurial devil, and the ground beneath us shifted and cracked, destroying the world as we knew it.

Fidel has shown us the cost of our silence. The danger of waiting too long to speak, of another's voice being louder than ours because we were too busy living in the bubbles we'd created to realize the rest of Cuba had changed and left us behind.”
― Chanel Cleeton, Next Year in Havana

“Because it is a thousand pities never to say what one feels, he thought...”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“Mainly, it’s not that there are things you can’t say. It’s that there are things you can’t say without the risk that people who previously lacked a voice might use their own freedom of speech to object.”
― Oliver Burkeman

“Poverty is possible in every society because someone refused to speak out.”
― Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance

“Your voice may not be loud today or be heard today, but make sure you are still standing on your feet.”
― Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance

“And I remind myself all the time now that if I were to have been born mute, or had maintained an oath of silence my whole life long for safety, I would still have suffered, and I would still die. It is very good for establishing perspective.”
― Audre Lorde

“It takes courage to stand up for yourself. I stand in honor, and no longer in fear of speaking out.”
― Catherine Jane Fisher, I am Catherine Jane: The True Story of One Woman's Quest for Justice

“I am strong and human with a mouth that works like a man’s and a more intelligible brain, and I demand to be heard.”
― Caroline George, The Vestige

“You are not entitled to stand or speak on behalf of the people or society, except that you are already provoked.”
― Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance

“Women have been using their ‘womanly wiles’ to influence male’s behavior for thousands of years. Why are they suddenly crying foul after they receive favor from those same men, some even decades before? They knew what they were doing from the start but had no problem accepting the benefits from those influential men. Why do women feel like they have the right to make outrageous claims of sexual harassment against men while destroying careers, businesses, and families with no repercussions?”
― Jane Whitaker

“Call Stella 'Trash Can Girl' again and I'll beat the h--- out of you. In fact, call her or anyone else anything ever again and I'll do the same. I'm done saying nothing. I'm done letting you treat people like crap. Do you hear me?”
― Katie McGarry, Red at Night

“Be BOLD like a cicada-pipe the heck up”
― Maureen Joyce Connolly, Little Lovely Things

“Without any of us saying a word, righteousness will come from Jesus Christ.”
― Ron Baratono