Clarice Lispector Quotes

I do have a mouth - I will say. I speak up when I see things I don't care for.

My voice is not going to be silenced by anybody.

I think it is important to speak out.

Everyone has a right to speak out.

I'm never going to beg for pardon for exercising fundamental rights.

I cannot keep quiet even when I am a lone voice.

Not being heard is no reason for silence.

Let us refuse to be silent! Speaking freely is a decisive step forward on the road to freedom.

I don't want our right to be able to speak and dissent to be taken away.

I have a free voice. I have a free mind. I have freedom of expression.

We will protect our constitutional right to boycott, divest, and sanctions in this country.

I'm not going to keep my mouth shut.

Art is freedom. If you defend art, you defend freedom.

I understand my mother and father and sister are in Turkey, but if I stop talking, who is going to speak for the thousands and thousands of innocent people in jail?

I haven't been afraid to speak my mind with anything, and I have always stood up for what I believe in.

I think arts should be liberal, people should be allowed to express themselves. It happens in most democratic countries in the world, and I don't see why it should be different in India.

I don't have tiffs with people. I only mind my business, but whatever interferes my freedom of expression, I have always voiced.

I have a voice, and I'm going to keep using it.

You cannot demand your rights, civil or otherwise, if you are unwilling to say what you are.

There are voices and they must be heard.

I hope the strong women out there aren't quiet and they don't go away, because when people attack you for speaking, the best way to drive them nuts is to smile and carry on speaking, louder, more wisely, more intensely, more articulately than ever.

I know of only one country, at least to my knowledge, which has a dissident culture where leading figures, I mean, the most famous writers, journalists, academics and so on, are not only critical of state policy, but are constantly carrying out civil disobedience and risking imprisonment and often being imprisoned, standing up for people's rights. That's Turkey.

The right to be a cussed fool Is safe from all devices human, It's common (ez a gin'I rule) To every critter born of woman.

Every child, woman, and man should possess license to speak or sing in his or her true voice.