Ella Wheeler Wilcox Quotes

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.

Apathy in general; people who are not standing up for what they believe in because somebody's got a louder mouth than them; it doesn't make any sense.

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

The human race is a race of cowards. I am not only marching with them but am carrying the banner.

When I see something wrong, I speak up.

Silence is complicity. I believe that.

If you want to be a real human being - a real woman, a real man - you cannot tolerate things which put you to indignation, to outrage. You must stand up. I always say to people, 'Look around; look at what makes you unhappy, what makes you furious, and then engage yourself in some action.'

I went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out.

I refuse to be silenced.

When I see something that's wrong, I just speak and act first and I'll take the consequences later.

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

I guess coming out against actual evil takes guts.

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

I had two options. One was to remain silent and wait to be killed. And the second was to speak up and then be killed. I chose the second one. I decided to speak up.

When I speak out against the guns or against the big corporations, some of my friends say, 'Oh Yoko, be careful. These people have all the power.' But, you know, most people don't speak out because they are frightened.

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

Sometimes, you have to get angry to get things done.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Trust me, you have to fight. When people are wrong, you've got to let them know it.

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.

People say sometimes, gosh, that was brave of you to write such-and-such last week. 'Brave?' What do they mean 'brave?' It's right! How could you not write it?

When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.