Speaks Out Quotes - Page 8

• Using the language of heroism, calling Daniel Ellsberg a hero, and calling the other people who made great sacrifices heroes - even though what they have done is heroic - is to distinguish them from the civic duty they performed, and excuses the rest of us from the same civic duty to speak out when we see something wrong, when we witness our government engaging in serious crimes, abusing power, engaging in massive historic violations of the Constitution of the United States. We have to speak out or we are party to that bad action.

  Edward Snowden

  Hero, Party, Sacrifice

  "Edward Snowden: A 'Nation' Interview". Interview with Katrina vanden Heuvel, Stephen F. Cohen, www.thenation.com. October 28, 2014.

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• A strong case can be made for religious leaders to speak out on political issues.

  Tony Campolo

  Religious, Strong, Issues

  "Using the Church for Partisan Politics" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 9, 2007.

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• We must have our say, not through violence, aggression or fear. We must speak out calmly and forcefully. We shall only be able to enter the new world era if we agree to engage in dialogue with the other side.

  Tahar Ben Jelloun

  Engagement, World, Able

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• When we see others victimized we must speak out. We have to seek justice for everybody.

  Alveda King

  Justice, Speak

  Source: saynsumthn.wordpress.com

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• I'm very grateful for the platform that I've had in my life to speak out about the things I care about.

  Anne Heche

  Grateful, Care, Platforms

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• I grew up in a culture in which it was a sin for a woman to speak out.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Culture, Sin, Grew Up

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• You cannot be afraid to speak up and speak out for what you believe. You have to have courage, raw courage.

  John Lewis

  Believe, Speak, Have Courage

  Twitter post from Jul 16, 2014

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• The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Real, Party, Issues

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.78, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Stand up, speak out, and be bold. Screw political correctness. Never let them tell you to sit down and shut up.

  Sarah Palin

  Political, Politics, Down And

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• Hearing the Beastie Boys speak out against sexism made me feel like if these men who had once sung about getting girls to 'do the laundry' and 'clean up my room' could understand, maybe the rest of the world would follow suit. It made me hopeful in the best way.

  Jessica Valenti

  Girl, Boys, Men

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• If no one speaks out for [young readers], if they don’t speak out for themselves, all they’ll get for required reading will be the most bland books available. Instead of finding the information they need at the library, instead of finding novels that illuminate life, they will find only those materials to which nobody could possibly object... In this age of censorship I mourn the loss of books that will never be written, I mourn the voices that will be silenced — writers’ voices, teachers’ voices, students’ voices — and all because of fear.

  Judy Blume

  Teacher, Book, Reading

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• I like that Ben & Jerry's is willing to speak out about social and political issues that aren't always safe - but are the right thing to do.

  Jerry Greenfield

  Issues, Political, Safe

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• One of the reasons I continue to speak out is that the solutions to the counterterrorism problem involve other parts of the national security community - especially other elements of the Department of Defense, State, FBI, Homeland Security and the staff.

  John Poindexter

  Community, Defense, Elements

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• I wish to preface my reflections by saying that I am conducting this prayer service and am speaking to you now with great reluctance. I did not seek to enter any controversy and I don't relish being part of one. But I have given this matter a great deal of thought and prayer, which has led me to the conviction that God is calling me to speak out and conduct these prayers.

  Thomas J. Paprocki

  Prayer, Reflection, Wish

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• If I were to envy any persons on this planet, it would be mountain hermits. You often hear old platitudes such as, 'Speak out. Be heard.' On the contrary, a breath of fresh air would be something like: 'Silence, think for at least 15 minutes, and then maybe speak out.

  Criss Jami

  Thinking, Air, Envy

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.55, Criss Jami

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• My friend's granddad died of prostate cancer and it had a profound effect on me. So when I was presented with the opportunity to speak out, I had to take it. This is a life threatening issue for men, it happens every day. The more you know the better your chances are of dealing with it if the worst were to happen.

  Tristan Wilds

  Cancer, Opportunity, Men

  "'90210' star Tristan Wilds poses nude in Cosmopolitan UK for cancer awareness" by Cristina Everett, www.nydailynews.com. July 08, 2011.

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• The devil is not fighting religion. He´s too smart for that. He is producing a counterfeit Christianity, so much like the real one that good Christians are afraid to speak out against it.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Real, Smart

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• There are two kinds of genius. The first and highest may be said to speak out of the eternal to the present, and must compel its age to understand it; the second understands its age, and tells it what it wishes to be told.

  James Russell Lowell

  Two, Wish, Age

  Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge (1871). “The North American Review”, p.196

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• It's so easy to demagogue the issue and make someone who speaks out against the internal-combustion engine sound like an insane communist, when the truth is that the internal-combustion engine is the biggest threat to my life in the next 25 years, in terms of what it's doing to our environment and how it's depleting the ozone layer and so forth.

  Bill Maher

  Issues, Ozone, Insane

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I've always been me. I've always been very direct and have told the truth and have been very willing to stand up and speak out.

  Bev Perdue

  Willing, Has Beens, Direct

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• And my approach has always been to stand up and speak out on behalf of the economic rights of people.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Rights, People, Economic

  "Interview with Representative Dennis Kucinich". "The John King, USA Show", www.realclearpolitics.com. December 30, 2011.

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• If you see something wrong, if you speak out...you can change it.

  Ethel Kennedy

  Speak, Ifs

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• Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a socialist.

  Martin Niemoller

  Talking, Holocaust, Human Rights

  Martin Niemöller (1986). “Exile in the Fatherland: Martin Niemöller's Letters from Moabit Prison”

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• Sometimes if you have very confident people, you have to tell them please, be polite, there are other players are good enough as you and you should never speak out of an orchestra.

  Kurt Masur

  Player, People, Orchestra

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• My opposition to the Vietnam War. I was the first Hollywood actor to speak out against it.

  Robert Vaughn

  War, Hollywood, Vietnam

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