Octavia Spencer Quotes

I refuse to be silenced.

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

I do have a mouth - I will say. I speak up when I see things I don't care for.

Silence is complicity. Speak now or surrender your ground.

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

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

Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.

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.

On one hand, I am very pessimistic, but on the other hand, if I didn't believe that speaking up would do something, I wouldn't have spoken.

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

There is nothing worse than doing nothing and saying nothing when your voice is needed.

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.

I'm not going to keep my mouth shut.

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

I might be living in a cardboard box under a freeway overpass, homeless, but I won't be silenced.

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

I cannot keep quiet even when I am a lone voice.

Silence is the language of inertia.

Silence is our enemy, and sound is our weapon.

I have heard more than once, 'Shut up and sing!' and I get it now.

The obstinacy of the indolent and weak is less conquerable than that of the fiery and bold.

I wouldn't advise [people] to be silent.

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

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

Not being heard is no reason for silence.