Anita Hill Quotes

We must say something, even when we know nothing.

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

Your silence will not protect you.

One should never, ever remain silent for fear of complexity,

Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

In some causes silence is dangerous.

When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.

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

I have noticed that nothing that I never said ever did me any harm.

He that would speak the truth must have one foot in the stirrup.

Somebody, after all, had to make a start. What we wrote and said is also believed by many others. They just don't dare express themselves as we did.

Silence is complicity. I believe that.

Yeah, I kind of looked around and I can't understand why nobody else is speaking up. Later when I faced the backlash of speaking up, I realized why nobody did.

Nothing will change unless you talk about it.

I finally reached the point where I knew I had to become involved or shut up.

Speak kind words to mankind and the unkind will attack you. Speak common sense using all your senses, and you will attacked by the senseless. Speak truth and you will be attacked by the untruthful. Speak about absolutely nothing and absolutely nothing will speak back, but then nothing at all will ever change.

I'd rather suffer the consequences of truth than of silence.

A leader is someone who has the courage to say publicly what everybody else is whispering privately. It is not his insight that sets the leader apart from the crowd. It is his courage to act and speak up when everyone else is silent....are those who would rather challenge what needs to change and pay the price than remain silent and die on the inside.

To be silent is to be complicit.

People will tell you for years whatever you have to say isn't important at all. So when you have someone who breaks the mold and speaks up - and you see and identify with that - they become your hero.

If I feel compelled or feel that I really need to say something at a certain time, I'll say it. But more do than not; I'm trying to lead by example.

When certain things reach a tipping point, and you know people's lives are in danger, you have to decide that it's time to speak up, and you have to say something loud and clear.

Who does not talk cannot be judged. Who does not shoot the penalty cannot miss.