Ayaan Hirsi Ali Quotes

I was never quiet when I worked at @cnn, when we did dumb stuff. You can't just take the check & stay quiet. Truth demands a voice: speak up.

Speaking truth to power is never going to be easy.

You cannot be quiet about things that you know.

You have to stand up for some things in this world.

If we don't bear witness as citizens, as people, as individuals, the right that we have had to life is sacrificed. There is a silence, instead of a speaking presence.

It is people's willingness to take personal risks and confront the powerful by daring to speak the truth, not the truth itself, that ultimately leads to change.

When I see something wrong, I speak up.

When I see a blatant injustice, I can't keep quiet. I've been that way since I was a little kid.

I refuse to be one of those people who watches injustices yet does nothing.

I think it's so important for somebody like me to stand up for the things I believe in and speak up on things I don't think are right.

They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak; They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing, and abuse, Rather than in silence shrink From the truth they needs must think; They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.

However, some things must be said, and there are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice.

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 always feel compelled to lend my voice to things I strongly believe in.

Heroes have a rough time because they stand up when they ought not to, they speak when they ought not to; they always have to go that extra mile.

He would still see it as his duty to shut up and get on with it, not cause any trouble. In our own time we've made a hero of the rebel, and it's more heroic to speak up.

Not many people were speaking truth to power in the '80s. I had a really good time doing it - I found it gratifying. It was a joy to have an opportunity to say what you believed. It's challenging to do it in fiction, but I liked writing the novels. I liked writing 'Democracy' particularly.

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

Fighting for what is right is not always popular but is always necessary.

Katie Otto goes after stuff she doesn't feel is right, and she stands up for it. I do that too, just kind of in a slightly kinder way because I'm from the South.

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.

Silence is complicity. I believe that.

When you see corruption, when you see injustice, you speak up. You don't just shut up and say it's none of my business.

When things are not fair, I speak my mind.