Eddie Campbell Quotes

Men acquiesce in a thousand things, once righteously and boldly done, to which, if proposed to them in advance, they might find endless objections.

If you don't speak out now when it matters, when would it matter for you to speak out?

To sin by silence, when we should protest, Makes cowards out of men.

We should not forget that our tradition is one of protest and revolt, and it is stultifying to celebrate the rebels of the past ... while we silence the rebels of the present.

People ask me if I have some kind of death wish, to keep saying the things I do. The answer is no: I would like to keep living. However, some things must be said, and there are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice.

Democrats are so spineless, so afraid to go against the tide... but dissension is the greatest form of patriotism.

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

I hope I don't have to buck the system. But if it requires bucking, I will do it.

I was never quiet when I worked at @cnn, when we did dumb stuff. You can't just take the check & stay quiet. Truth demands a voice: speak up.

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War.

In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.

The human race is a race of cowards. I am not only marching with them but am carrying the banner.

If I think something is wrong, I'm going to say it.

We have come to a point where it is loyalty to resist, and treason to submit.

Lives of great men all remind us, Greatness takes no easy way, All the heroes of tomorrow, Are the heretics of today. Socrates and Galileo, John Brown, Thoreau, Christ, and Debs, Heard the night cry "Down with traitors!" And the dawn shout "Up the rebs!"

I just wish I could have all this and stand up to her a little. Rose would." "Rose would have gotten herself arrested for treason the first time Tatiana asked her to do something.

Whose silence are you?

I just try to do the things I'm asked to do.

Our founding fathers declared independence from Great Britain because they were dissatisfied with the laws and policies that they believed abridged their freedoms. Had they taken the stance that many want our professional athletes to take - to just shut up and honor your country no matter what - we would be living in British colonies.

Wherever they send us to practice, we will go.

Sometimes, when life moves along, you're presented with situations where you find it necessary to speak because so many people either seem to be afraid to or, more sinister, are unwilling to face things and let things go and worry about their own situations.

If someone tells me I can't wear something, that's the moment when I want to wear it.

When I heard Edward Snowden's story, it reminded me of my mother in a strange way. She was in the French resistance from early on, 1941. At that time, the Resistance were considered troublemakers - even traitors - in France.