Pete Seeger Quotes

Sometimes you need to speak up about what you're standing for.

Obviously when you come into competition with other schools and you become aware of anything that concerns you, you have an obligation to say something.

Speak up, stand up, and keep correcting the false perceptions. Stay true to your heart's views and keep chanting for peace and justice.

You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.

You just have to speak up. You just have to say, 'I would like to do this,' and it's amazing what people who listen can do for you.

What you've got to say, you say.

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.

Sometimes you have to say what's on your mind if it's something that's really important to you.

I don't believe in holding your tongue, especially if it's something you can directly benefit from or some people need to hear.

If you're quiet, and you don't speak out, you're never going to get anything accomplished.

We need groups like the Women's March reminding elected officials that they have a responsibility to create pathways of opportunity, and if - and when - they aren't doing that, everyday people are going to put a little "extra" on their ordinary and extraordinary things will happen. At this moment, the not-so-quiet voices rumbling across the country and the world are saying we absolutely and unequivocally deserve better.

I will never shrink from speaking truth to power.

Everybody has the right to speak up in a democracy. We would be in trouble as a society if there wasn't a constant pressure to make reforms and to be just. Sometimes as prime minister, when i was caught up in a really loud demonstration, I used to say to myself that I deserved it because of all the demonstrations I myself had organized as a student against Duplessis.

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

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

We have to speak truth to power.

It's always important, when we experience injustice in this nation, that people in power understand that we will not take that injustice quietly.

You have to be a voice; you have to be able to speak up.

I always tell young women that they have a right to own their opinion, to speak up, and to make the first move.

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

At Accenture, we are visibile, and I feel when you are visible - when people are watching you - you need to speak up.

I have a policy about honesty and ass-kicking, which is, if you ask for it, then I have to let you have it.

Only when you find the courage to say something to someone that might influence a change in your behavior, does that behavior change.

It takes courage to speak up against complacency and injustice while others remain silent. But that's what leadership is.

Young girls are the chatelaines of truth; they must see that it is protected, that the guilty lead the life of the guilty, even if the world rocks on its foundations.