Salma Hayek Quotes

Don't give up! I believe in you all. A person's a person, no matter how small! And you very small persons will not have to die If you make yourselves heard! So come on, now, and TRY!

When you feel powerful, you are willing to stand up for your rights, you are willing to stand up for what you believe in, you're more willing to stand up and be counted.

We wish to plead our own cause. Too long have others spoken for us.

If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.

I will continue to be good but if people think I don't have a voice and that I don't take stand for myself, that's what I will do. I will show that I have another side to me.

Putting yourself out there is hard, but it's so worth it. I don't think anyone who has ever spoken out, or stood up or had a brave moment, has regretted it. It's empowering and confidence-building and inspiring. Not only to other people, but to yourself.

Fight for what you believe in, speak your mind, and don't be afraid.

Years and years of therapy taught me to speak up because speaking up is what gets things done and gets your story and your voice heard.

It's become easier to speak up for myself.

Be not scared to use your voice.

I'm just a normal girl who dreams, who fights for what I believe.

Not being heard is no reason for silence.

If somebody's trying to shut you up, sing louder, and if possible, better.

Give voice to what you know to be true, and do not be afraid of being disliked or exiled. I think that's the hard work of standing up for what you see.

The message is always going to get through. Me being able to speak is a message in itself.

I had something I was trying to say and sometimes the message is an easy transmission and sometimes it's a difficult one but I love the power of saying it so I'm gonna do it whether it's hard or easy.

I have enough energy to insist on saying what I think.

I feel like I have to have a voice.

Video gives people a voice.

If I'm tapping anything, it's the frustration of people who have something to say at work or home or in some social setting and just can't do it. I do it for them. I don't take prisoners.

Speak for yourself and from yourself, or be silent.

Stay strong. Stand up. Have a voice.

I want to encourage kids to speak up, to tell their stories. That is the only way people will know what we have to go through. Believe in yourself. Someone once told me being different isn't bad - different is just different!

My voice is not going to be silenced by anybody.

What you've got to say, you say.