Caitlyn Jenner Quotes

There is a responsibility that goes with winning the Nobel Prize, and the responsibility is that if you have a forum, you should use it wisely.

Americans believe that if you know something, you should do something about it.

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

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

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

I'm just becoming more and more aware of this truly profound responsibility that we carry as individuals. And it's a responsibility not only to ourselves and to our families, but to the billions of people who still have to come in the future who will be dealing with our legacy.

People ask me if I have some kind of death wish, to keep saying the things I do. The answer is no: I would like to keep living. However, some things must be said, and there are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice.

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.

I feel like I have to be responsible for what I'm participating in or putting out into the world.

I try to have my voice be heard, but not on a regular basis on TV.

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

I see more people taking on the cloak of accountability, more people tiring of the blame game. If we are all connected and our actions in Australia affect us in Istanbul, then we are all to blame and all to be healers. We can't blame lawyers anymore for the 'liability' vs. common sense imbalance.

I try to be as honest about what I see and to speak rather than be silent, especially if it means I can save lives, or serve humanity.

Into this, for good or ill, is woven every belief of every man who has speech of his fellows. A awful privilege, and an awful responsibility, that we should help to create the world in which posterity will live.

If you've been around for thirty years posing moral judgments on politics and society, you've got to take a stand. You can't go waving your wooden sword forever.

I cannot flinch from saying such things in public. As a Representative of the People I am duty bound to do so. Justice cries out to me not to dissemble.

Telling the truth -- telling thoughtful truths -- should not be a revolutionary act. Speaking truths to power should not be sacrificial, but they are. But I think if more of us chose to do this for the greater good, we'd be in better spaces than we are right now.

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.

When I see something wrong, I speak up.

I think there's a social responsibility that comes with a public platform. Because of the position that I've been put in, I think it's important to use my voice to do as much as I can.

That's what everyone should do with their lives: stand up for what they believe in or try to do some good in the world. I don't think artists have a greater responsibility than anyone else.

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.