Giving Voice Quotes:

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

- Ayn Rand

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Empowering Women, Try Again

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

source: Quoted in Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Ind.), 7 June 1941 See Channing 1

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Leadership, Empowering Women, Improve Self Esteem

Writing and giving voice to what I am feeling makes me happy. And supporting people in finding their voice, passion, outrage and resistance. There is nothing better than that.

- Eve Ensler

topic: Passion, Writing, Voice, Giving Voice

My work is about giving voice to the unheard, and reiterating the voice of the heard in such a way that you question, or re-examine, what is the truth.

- Anna Deavere Smith

topic: Voice, Giving, Way, Giving Voice

[Carrie Fisher] could talk about issues that very few people could. She could make her bipolar disorder both real and entertaining. Carrie deserves a lot of credit for giving voice to traumas that few people feel comfortable talking about.

- Tony Taccone

topic: Real, Talking, Voice, Giving Voice, Bipolar Disorder

Donald Trump is basically giving voice to a lot of people who have felt that they were voiceless.

- Paul Ryan

source: Source: www.washingtonpost.com

topic: Voice, People, Giving, Giving Voice

I really don't want to produce artwork that does not have meaning beyond simple decorative values. I want to use public space to create a public voice, and a public consciousness about the presence of people who are, in fact, the majority of the population but who are not represented in any visual way. By telling their stories we are giving voice to the voiceless and visualizing the whole of the American story.

- Judy Baca

topic: Simple, Voice, Space, Giving Voice, Visualizing

We become human only in the company of other human beings. And this involves both opening our hearts and giving voice to our deepest convictions. ...When we shrink from the world, our souls shrink, too.

- Paul Rogat Loeb

source: Paul Rogat Loeb (2010). “Soul of a Citizen: Living with Conviction in Challenging Times”, p.30, Macmillan

topic: Heart, Voice, Giving, Opening Our Hearts, Giving Voice

The act of giving voice to this spiritual suffering is, in my view, the sacred duty of the writer.

- Mo Yan

source: Mo Yan (2013). “Shifu, You'll Do Anything for a Laugh: A Novel”, p.14, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

topic: Spiritual, Voice, Views, Giving Voice

Trump is the candidate giving voice to untold millions of fed-up Americans witnessing a purposeful destruction of our economy and the equal opportunity for success that made America exceptional, we're watching career politicians throw away our kids' future through bankrupting public budgets and ripping open our porous borders which, obvious to all us non-politicians, puts us at great risk.

- Sarah Palin

source: "First on CNN: Palin calls both McCain and Trump heroes" by Jake Tapper, edition.cnn.com. July 20, 2015.

topic: Success, Kids, Opportunity, Career Politicians, Giving Voice

The Church at its best is about empowering the disempowered and giving voice to the dispossessed and not putting a price on everything and not being about the bottom line and not worshipping the market or everything that is material.

- Steve Coogan

source: "Steve Coogan Doesn't Believe in Fairies". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 25, 2013.

topic: Voice, Giving, Empowering, Giving Voice

And Lopate's anthology helped a lot too. It came out the same year I started grad school, and I remember the book's publication feeling eventful and celebratory. It got a ton of attention for giving voice to this form that had sort of slipped between the cracks. That was exciting to see.

- John D'Agata

topic: Book, School, Years, Giving Voice, Grad School

There stands no contradiction between giving voice to legitimate anxiety and at the same time, as and when exchange of fire commences, looking to the rest of the country, as well as all of us in the House, to give full moral support to our forces.

- Charles Kennedy

topic: Country, Voice, Fire, Moral Support, Giving Voice

Rigorously investigated and fearlessly reported, A Crime So Monstrous is a passionate and thorough examination of the appalling reality of human bondage in today's world. In his devastating narrative, Ben Skinner boldly casts light on the unthinkable, yet thriving, modern-day practice of slavery, exposing a global trade in human lives. The abuses detailed in these pages are repugnant, but there is hope to be found: by giving voice to the victims, Skinner helps restore their dignity and makes crucial strides toward closing this shameful chapter in history.

- William J. Clinton

topic: Reality, Light, Practice, Skinner, Exposing