Roland Martin Quotes

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.

But on those occasions when I do strongly disagree with the Democrats and I don't say anything, I think I forfeit my right to have people pay attention to me when I say the things that I don't like about what Republicans are saying.

Truth is the greatest of all national possessions. A state, a people, a system which suppresses the truth or fears to publish it, deserves to collapse.

Speaking truth to power is never going to be easy.

We're not into politics at all. We're just saying what other people are afraid to say.

I have huge respect for whistle-blowers, people who stand up against their bosses and losing their careers, just for truth and justice.

When I see something wrong, I speak up.

When it was not very comfortable, politically, for me, I said things which lots of people didn't like, some of them may have liked. I said my beliefs, my truth, and my convictions, and that's how I am going to continue to do in the future.

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

There are things that need to be said... and I think it's my obligation to say them.

We need to have leaders that aren't afraid to go against the grain to call out failures in leadership.

I think standing up for facts and decency is important, and we should've done more of it back in 2015 and 2016.

I will never shrink from speaking truth to power.

I believe to go along to get along is unpatriotic. I believe that agreeing with your government on everything they do is unpatriotic. I believe a patriot stands up and holds your government's feet to the fire. Because if you do that, you will get good government.

Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is not true.

Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk.

There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.

There comes a time when you have to stand up and be counted.

I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins.

I have been known for some time as a person who speaks the truth and speaks it strongly. I have always called a liar a liar and a hypocrite a hypocrite.

I am here to accept responsibility for that which I did. I will not accept responsibility for that which I did not do.

I'm someone who believes the truth needs to be heard. And if I'm empowered with the truth, I'm not going to shut up.

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth.

I feel like it's my responsibility to honestly cover a lot of subjects in part because I have two little girls and I really want them when they grow up to have a voice.