quotes about Speaking Up
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Let others know when they have hurt or angered you. By not speaking up when someone insults or mistreats you, you are inadvertently giving permission for him or her to continue to treat you in the same way in the future.
-- Beverly EngelSource : Beverly Engel (2011). “AARP The Nice Girl Syndrome: Stop Being Manipulated and Abused--and Start Standing Up for Yourself”, p.4, John Wiley & Sons
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I believe it is the responsibility and duty of those in high-profile positions to give a voice to people whose voices cannot be heard.
-- Donatella Versace -
courage isn't simply a matter of leading charges: sometimes it consists in speaking up, sometimes in stoic silence, sometimes in forging ahead, sometimes in circumspection, and sometimes in nothing less than preserving our own humanity.
-- Elizabeth SametSource : Elizabeth D. Samet (2007). “Soldier's Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point”, p.214, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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[To the heckler who said, 'If you were my wife I'd poison you':] No, you wouldn't. I'd do it myself.
-- Emmeline Pankhurst -
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For every time we regret keeping still, there are about ten times we regret speaking up.
-- James Alexander Thom -
So now is the time, more than ever, for those who truly value all the principles of democracy, especially including dissent, to be the most forceful in speaking up, standing up and speaking out.
-- Jim Hightower -
you must cry out if you want help. It is no use whatsoever to suffer in silence. Who will succour the drowning man if he does not clamour for his life?
-- Kamala MarkandayaSource : Kamala Markandaya (2000). “Nectar in a sieve and related readings”
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[On refusing to be silenced:] I do not pretend to be John the Baptist rebuking the Pharisees. I do not claim to be Nathan upbraiding David. I aspire only to be Balaam's ass, castigating his master.
-- Katharina Zell -
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shall I, for fear of feeble man who shall die, hold my peace? Shall I for fear of scoffs and frowns, refrain my tongue? Ah, no!
-- Maria W. StewartSource : Maria W. Stewart, Marilyn Richardson (1987). “Maria W. Stewart, America's First Black Woman Political Writer: Essays and Speeches”, p.30, Indiana University Press
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Speaking up for America has become a lonely ordeal.
-- Maurice Saatchi -
I have one thing in common with the emerging black nations of Africa: We both have voices, and we are discovering what we can do with them.
-- Miriam Makeba -
Let's acknowledge the difference between speaking up with intention and speaking up for attention.
-- Monica Lewinsky -
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More women speaking up and seizing the helm of power can create its own momentum. It can change the culture that helps perpetuate those external forces.
-- Nancy BirdsallSource : "Why I Want My Daughters — and Son — to Read Lean In" by Nancy Birdsall, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 12, 2013.
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Sometimes change comes not in the first round, but at the second, third or fourth. Change starts with one person questioning, challenging, speaking up and doing something to make a difference. We can each make a difference...because each of us is already part of the community where racism exists & thrives.
-- Paul Kivel -
[To the bishop who suggested the widowed queen now consider herself 'as married to Christ':] That's what I call twaddle!
-- Queen Victoria -
There's something so healthy about young people speaking up in unity.
-- Robbie Robertson -
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You can be the outcast or be the backlash of somebody's lack of love. Or you can start speaking up.
-- Sara BareillesSource : Song: Brave, Album: The Blessed Unrest, 2013
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I was raised on the values of speaking up and making a positive difference in a very political family that believed in the importance of public service.
-- Scott McClellanSource : "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. June 1, 2008.
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In order to create an alternative an oppressed group must at once shatter the self-reflecting world which encircles it and, at the same time, project its own image onto history.
-- Sheila RowbothamSource : Sheila Rowbotham (1999). “Threads Through Time: Writings on History and Autobiography”, Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Don't make it necessary for me to complain about you to Christ crucified. (There is no one else I can complain to, since there is no one greater than you on earth.
-- St. Catherine of Siena -
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I've learned the importance of speaking up for myself and voicing my opinions and my ideas. I'm definitely a shy person.
-- Fiona Gubelmann -
Your projects can often demonstrative new and innovative approaches that can be supported and eventually replicated with greater support from the public sector. Showing up and speaking up at city council and state legislature hearings are essential, but so is the project work.
-- Mark Winne -
I am glad to see the wheels are moving at last toward comprehensive immigration reform after last year's election. I am glad that immigrants are speaking up.
-- Andrew LamSource : "‘Birds of Paradise Lost’: A Conversation With Author Andrew Lam". Interview with Anna Challet, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2013.