Antonio Tabucchi Quotes

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

People have the right to say what they want to.

We must learn, and especially we Germans, that resistance is not only possible and allowed in dictatorships. There is resistance that man must perform every day.

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

Opinion and protest are the life breath of democracy—even when it blows heavy.

... the greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong.

When I see something wrong, I speak up.

If there are things that some think are wrong, then people have the right to speak up.

I support anybody that does have a grievance to be able to air it, and that's it.

Everyone has a right to speak out.

If you want to be a real human being - a real woman, a real man - you cannot tolerate things which put you to indignation, to outrage. You must stand up. I always say to people, 'Look around; look at what makes you unhappy, what makes you furious, and then engage yourself in some action.'

I lose film roles because I'm a person who doesn't keep quiet about certain things. But if my heart tells me something is wrong, I'm going to go and do something about it.

I refuse to be silenced.

Protest is patriotic. Since the beginning of musical time, American singers and songwriters have used their talent and bully pulpits to show us America's strengths and shortcomings.

If our hard-earned liberty, our desire to be irreverent of the old and to question the new, can be reduced to one, basic and indispensable right, it must be the right to free speech.

Bring it on. Dissent is central to any democracy.

If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution.

You cannot mix sports with politics.

Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.

If in my fight I can encourage even some people to understand and to abandon policies they now so blindly follow, I shall not regret any punishment I may incur.

Speak up! We live in a democracy. We all need to make sure our voices are heard and our opinions are known.

You know, everybody believes in free speech until you start questioning them about it.

The greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong.

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

How many of you are willing to go to jail for freedom?