Howard Schultz Quotes

Speak up for the people that nobody speaks for.

We need someone who will stand up and speak up and speak out for the people who need help, for people who are being discriminated against. And it doesn't matter whether they are black or white, Latino, Asian or Native American, whether they are straight or gay, Muslim, Christian, or Jews.

We need someone who is going to stand up, speak up, and speak out for the people who need help, for the people who have been discriminated against.

In any human-rights campaign, everybody must do what they can.

We need leaders who will stand up for the little guy and listen once again.

Let's continue to stand up for those who are vulnerable to being left out or marginalized.

Let's resolve to never be a bystander in the fight for human dignity

I do feel a responsibility to try and raise awareness and to help tell the stories of those who may not otherwise have a voice.

Wherever there was injustice, war, discrimination against women, gays and the disadvantaged, I did my best to show up and exert moral persuasion.

Maybe it's because my uncle and my parents were always very involved with the civil rights movement, so I just grew up and I was raised that you have to speak out and look out for your fellow man, woman, and child.

I consider myself a social justice person.

It is important to me to keep fighting for the rights of those who cannot.

I'm marching for women; I'm marching for the LGBT community. I'm marching for immigrants. I happen to fall into all three categories, so I'm marching for myself at the end of the day and for my family and my friends. And for whoever else deserves it.

My mom has always taught me to stand up for people who don't have a voice.

I've worked for everything I've had, and I can't think of a better way of using it than standing up for what's right, and what's required to build a better society.

I believe Native Americans, women, and all of us deserve representation, and that we all need to fight with everything we have to make it so.

I stand up for all rights.

To stand together against homophobic, sexist, misogynistic, anti-Semitic and racist agendas. I’m an optimist and I can’t help but feel hopeful about the future of film - especially looking at all the beautiful people in this room. Martin Luther King Jr. said, ‘Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.’ I would like to encourage everyone in this room to please speak up.

I am passionate about human rights.

I want to be a champion for the people I have fought for all my life - regular people.

I'm trying to appeal to the disenfranchised everybody, not just specifically gay.

If it was all about me, I'd do a whole lot of pop records, make a whole lot of money, just rake in the dough. But it's never been all about me. It's all about being a voice for the voiceless. People who can't speak for themselves, who don't have a mic, don't have a say.

To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.

Social media are a catalyst for the advancement of everyone's rights. It's where we're reminded that we're all human and all equal. It's where people can find and fight for a cause, global or local, popular or specialized, even when there are hundreds of miles between them.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.