Al Goldstein Quotes

People and systems count on our silence to keep us exactly where we are.... in a world that wants us to whisper, I choose to yell.

I don't fear death; I fear remaining silent in the face of injustice. I am young and I want to live. But I say to those that would eliminate my voice: I am ready, wherever and whenever you might strike. You can cut down the flower, but nothing can stop the coming of the spring.

My voice is not going to be silenced by anybody.

I will not be silenced or deterred.

I will not allow anyone to shut me up or shame me into silence, and I'm not going to rot away behind closed doors.

I'm not going to keep my mouth shut.

It's really important that folks be able to speak out.

You need people with the courage to stand up and voice their opposition without being labeled unpatriotic.

Never be bullied into silence.

They claim that I'm violent just cuz I refuse to be silent.

Power is never so overwhelming that there's no room for resistance.

I was silent as a child, and silenced as a young woman; I am taking my lumps and bumps for being a big mouth, now, but usually from those whose opinion I don't respect.

They have learned that resistance is actually possible. The holds are beginning to slip away.

Silence is complicity. Speak now or surrender your ground.

I think to be in exile is a curse, and you need to turn it into a blessing. You've been thrown into exile to die, really, to silence you so that your voice cannot come home. And so my whole life has been dedicated to saying, 'I will not be silenced.'

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

Neither God, nor angels, or just men, command you to suffer for a single moment. Therefore it is your solemn and imperative duty to use every means, both moral, intellectual, and physical, that promise success .... Brethren, arise, arise! Strike for your lives and liberties.... Let your motto be resistance, resistance, resistance!

When men hold their peace, the stones will cry out.

I want every American to stand up for his rights, even if he has to sit down for them.

When the prison, stake or scaffold can no longer silence the voice of the protesting minority, progress moves on a step, but not until then.

We should not label people who speak up, because it should not be the exception - it should be the norm. When you see something wrong, you speak up.

They think because they have put my husband on an island that he will be forgotten. They are wrong. The harder they try to silence him, the louder I will become.

I always had to fight for the chance to get people to hear me.

I can't afford to be quiet all the time. I learned that.

People often ask me why I continue to speak out if it's hurting my family. But that's exactly why I speak out. The people Erdogan is targeting are my family, my friends, my neighbors, my classmates. I need to speak out, or my country will suffer in silence.