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• It's very difficult for you to speak out against your child, someone that's in your family. You can have an argument with them, but you can't condemn them. You can't cast them out, because God has not done that to us. We cannot do that to anybody else.

  Otis Moss III

  Children, Done, Argument

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Women tend to vote the economic interests of their families and to speak out on family economic issues. For men, there's often much more focus on the idea of personal failure: "If I'm not winning this great economic game, it must be my fault."

  Elizabeth Warren

  Winning, Men, Games

  Interview with Ruth Conniff, progressive.org. December 27, 2009.

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• Why should I need an artist to explain a work of art to me? Why should it not speak out to me itself?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Art, Needs, Should

  Mahatma Gandhi (1976). “Collected Works”

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• But if there be an hereafter,And that there is, conscience, uninfluenc'dAnd suffer'd to speak out, tells every man,Then must it be an awful thing to die;More horrid yet to die by one's own hand.

  Robert Blair

  Men, Hands, Suffering

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• I also have to speak out for people around me who are afraid, who think it is not worth it or who have totally given up hope. So I want to set an example: you can do it and this is OK, to speak out.

  Ai Weiwei

  Thinking, People, Example

  "Ai Weiwei: 'I have to speak for people who are afraid'". Interview with Tania Branigan, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2010.

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• My business in life has been to think and learn, and to speak out with absolute freedom what I have thought and learned. The freedom is itself a positive and never-failing enjoyment to me, after the bondage of my early life.

  Harriet Martineau

  Thinking, Atheism, Failing

  Harriet Martineau (2015). “Harriet Martineau's Autobiography (Vol. I: Abridged, Annotated)”, p.85, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• I believe everyone here has a right to speak out on politics as effectively as possible.

  Ted Cruz

  Believe, Politics, I Believe

  "Cruz: Lift all contribution limits on campaign cash" by Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. March 15, 2015.

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• We've always believed that popular culture and populist politics go hand in hand. It's an honor to be working with so many respected and influential artists, and we're indebted to them for having the courage to speak out at a time when our country so desperately needs change. For our 2.5 million members and far beyond, the Vote for Change tour will have a seismic cultural impact.

  Eli Pariser

  Country, Artist, Impact

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• On popular issues like poverty and slavery, where Christians are likely to be applauded for our social action, we are quick to stand up and speak out. Yet on controversial issues like homosexuality and abortion, where Christians are likely to be criticized for our involvement, we are content to sit down and stay quiet.

  David Platt

  Christian, Issues, Abortion

  David Platt (2015). “Counter Culture: Following Christ in an Anti-Christian Age”, p.13, Tyndale House

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• But I'm here to say that when we do speak out, we're going to do so because the United States of America does believe, and will always stand for, a certain set of universal values.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, America, United States

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• 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.

  Helen Prejean

  Government, Citizens, Realizing

  Helen Prejean (2011). “Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States”, p.115, Vintage

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• Obama wanted to offer his support to birth control activist Sandra Fluke. He wanted to express his disappointment that she has been the subject of inappropriate personal attacks and thank her for exercising her rights as a citizen to speak out on an issue of public policy.

  Jay Carney

  Disappointment, Exercise, Rights

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• We must take the best from the left and the best from the right to devise new strategies for the global twenty-first century. The reluctance of liberal professors to speak out against rampant abuses committed on their side (e.g., suppression of free speech, the excesses of women's studies and French theory) has simply increased the power of the right.

  Camille Paglia

  Abuse, Twenties, Excess

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.18, Vintage

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• The AIDS disease is caused by a virus, but the AIDS epidemic is not. The AIDS epidemic is fueled by stigma, by hate, by misinformation, by ignorance, by indifference. Science has accomplished miracles over the past 20 years, and science can now end this disease - but it cannot end the epidemic. We need more than medicine. We can do something about these things. We need to speak out about the changes we need to make in our society.

  Elton John

  Hate, Ignorance, Past

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• One has to speak out and stand up for one's convictions. Inaction at a time of conflagration is inexcusable.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Speak, Conviction, Inaction

  Mahatma Gandhi (1981). “Collected Works”

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• We will not hesitate to speak out when we see actions that contradict those values.

  Barack Obama

  Action, Speak, Values

  "Obama announces re-establishment of U.S.-Cuba diplomatic ties" By Eugene Scott, www.cnn.com. July 1, 2015.

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• When I liberate myself, I liberate others. If you don't speak out ain't nobody going to speak out for you.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Speak, Ifs

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• Power and those in control concede nothing ... without a demand. Hey never have and never will... Each and every one of us must keep demanding, must keep fighting, must keep thundering, must keep plowing, must keep on keeping things struggling, must speak out and speak up until justice is served because where there is no justice there is no peace.

  Frederick Douglass

  Wisdom, Struggle, Fighting

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• Every man who speaks out loud and clear is tinting the "Zeitgeist." Every man who expresses what he honestly thinks is true is changing the Spirit of the Times. Thinkers help other people to think, for they formulate what others are thinking. No person writes or thinks alone--thought is in the air, but its expression is necessary to create a tangible Spirit of the Times.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Writing, Men, Thinking

  Elbert Hubbard (1914). “So Here Then Cometh Pig-pen Pete; Or, Some Chums of Mine”

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• One good reason for the popularity of "reductionism" among the philosophical outposts of the Western Establishment is that it can be, and is, used as a device for trying to take the wind, so to speak, out of the sails of Marxism. . . . In essence reductionism is a kind of anti-Marxist caricature of Marxist determinism. It is what anti-Marxists pretend that Marxist determinism is.

  Claud Cockburn

  Philosophical, Wind, Essence

  Claud Cockburn (1981). “Cockburn Sums Up: An Autobiography”, Quartet Books (UK)

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• Beauty has so many charms, one knows not how to speak against it; and when it happens that a graceful figure is the habitation of a virtuous soul, when the beauty of the face speaks out the modesty and humility of the mind, and the justness of the proportion raises our thoughts up to the heart and wisdom of the great Creator, something may be allowed it,--and something to the embellishments which set it off; and yet, when the whole apology is read, it will be found at last that beauty, like truth, never is so glorious as when it goes the plainest.

  Laurence Sterne

  Beauty, Humility, Heart

  Laurence Sterne (1823). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: With a Life of the Author”, p.241

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• The government does not need to know more about what we are doing. We need to know more about what the government is doing. We should be thankful for individuals like Edward Snowden and Glenn Greenwald who see injustice being carried out by their own government and speak out, despite the risk. They have done a great service to the American people by exposing the truth about what our government is doing in secret.

  Ron Paul

  Nsa, Government, People

  "Ron Paul: We need to know more about what the government is doing". www.campaignforliberty.org. June 10, 2013.

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• I am hopeful that others who have suffered sexual harassment will not become discouraged by my experience, but instead will find the strength to speak out about this serious problem.

  Anita Hill

  Hopeful, Serious, Problem

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• An effective leader is willing to think about what's happening and how to understand what's going on. Facilitating flow and making others more conscious of it, the leader communicates an awareness of process to the group, making them more aware of their energies and options. One important principle is to keep track of who has not spoken. ... It's also important to notice when people do speak out but are not heard. Effective leaders practice patience, reminding themselves to wait and observe, remembering that there's always more going on in a group than we're consciously aware of.

  Diane Dreher

  Leadership, Thinking, Practice

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• I believe one day a 'ban on gay marriage' will sound totally ridiculous. In the meantime, I will continue to speak out for equality for all of us.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Believe, Gay, One Day

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