Tyron Woodley Quotes

I'm not going to stand by and ignore things that I think are important to talk about.

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

You can't be dismissive of important things. You have to speak out, even if you don't get the results you would like to have.

I feel a real sense of duty to use the voice and the platform I've been afforded by my fame to speak out for those whose voices don't get a chance to be heard.

Acceptance does not mean that you placidly acquiesce to the myriad injustices that are all around you. In fact, that you are incensed about these injustices is the very reason you need to try your level best to 'right' these 'wrongs.'

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.

When I see something wrong, I speak up.

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.

My parents always told me if I believed something was wrong, I should try to fix it.

There are people who can look out for other human beings; there are people who can speak up when something is not right and say, 'This is wrong, and something should be done.'

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

If you have any platform and a voice, I think it's important to use it.

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.

We have got to stop being a society that turns our heads and looks the other way.

I think that you really don't have a choice, when you see that things are wrong the only choice you really have is to just do what you can to make it better.

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

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.

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

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

It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most enormous wrong; he may still properly have other concerns to engage him; but it is his duty, at least, to wash his hands of it, and, if he gives it no thought longer, not to give it practically his support.

I know that we will be the sufferers if we let great wrongs occur without exerting ourselves to correct them.

I will absolutely be an advocate and a fighter where 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.

I think it is important to speak out.