Speaking Up Quotes

• Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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• Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.

  Melinda Gates

  Life, Positive, Success

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• The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

  Alice Walker

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Peace, Life And Love, Work

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8192, Delphi Classics

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• Let's acknowledge the difference between speaking up with intention and speaking up for attention.

  Monica Lewinsky

  Differences, Attention, Intention

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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

  Differences, Racism, Community

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• 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 Samet

  Courage, Silence, Humanity

  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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• There's something so healthy about young people speaking up in unity.

  Robbie Robertson

  People, Healthy, Unity

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• It's very often the artist who gives a voice to the voiceless by speaking up when no one else will.

  Barbra Streisand

  Artist, Voice, Giving

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• Choosing with integrity means finding ways to speak up that honor your reality, the reality of others, and your willingness to meet in the center of that large field. It’s hard sometimes.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Integrity, Mean, Reality

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• Whether that's speaking up in your job or asking for a promotion or saying, 'I think I can do that.' Using your voice in ways that might initially scare you. That can be being an architect of change.

  Maria Shriver

  Jobs, Thinking, Voice

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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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 Bareilles

  Lack Of Love, Outcast, Backlash

  Song: Brave, Album: The Blessed Unrest, 2013

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• 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

  Democracy, Principles, Dissent

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• 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 Markandaya

  Men, Silence, Suffering

  Kamala Markandaya (2000). “Nectar in a sieve and related readings”

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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

  Believe, Responsibility, Voice

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• We talk a lot about our right to freedom of expression, but we need to talk more about our responsibility to freedom of expression. We all want to be heard, but let's acknowledge the difference between speaking up with intention and speaking up for attention

  Monica Lewinsky

  Responsibility, Differences, Expression

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• There was no one left to speak for me.

  Martin Niemoller

  Bystanders, Nwo, Holocaust

  "First they came". Poem by Martin Niemoller,

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• What makes me vulnerable is speaking up about topics that may be controversial to others.

  Gabrielle Bernstein

  Topics, May, Vulnerable

  "May Cause Miracles | Author Gabrielle Bernstein Interview: Rachel P. Goldstein". www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Calvin: Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we can think faster than we speak? Hobbes: Probably so we can think twice.

  Bill Watterson

  Thinking, Talking, Sometimes

  "There's Treasure Everywhere". Book by Bill Watterson, March 1996.

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• Be a teacher. If someone is acting hurtful toward you, chances are high that they're doing the same to others. By speaking up and taking action, you are helping others who might be hurt from this person unless they are reigned in.

  Doreen Virtue

  Teacher, Hurt, Helping Others

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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

  Ideas, Shy, Opinion

  Source: collider.com

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• thinking beings have an urge to speak, speaking beings have an urge to think.

  Hannah Arendt

  Thinking, Speak, Urges

  Hannah Arendt (1981). “The Life of the Mind”, p.115, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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

  Baptists, Pharisees, Ass

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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 McClellan

  Differences, Political, Public Service

  "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. June 1, 2008.

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• Speaking up for America has become a lonely ordeal.

  Maurice Saatchi

  Lonely, America, Ordeals

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