Speaking Out Quotes

I'm not afraid to use my platform. I don't want to preach to people; I just want to put my opinions across about things I feel strongly about.

In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

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.

Women should not let anybody take them for a ride. If they face such things, they should talk about it.

Silence is safer than speech.

Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.

We're not descended from fearful men - not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular.

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously.

A radical is one who speaks the truth.

In terms of men being feminist allies, it's just important to speak from your own place. I'd love to hear men singing about masculinity and the damage it does to them.

To be silent is to be complicit.

I cannot keep quiet even when I am a lone voice.

I’m better speaking with my own voice. That is one of the reasons I left the Senate

The act of witnessing is important to me; somebody's got to tell the truth, you know what I mean?

I don't want to sit by the edge, like some other guys who have played their game. Earned money, have nice lifestyles, and don't say anything.

Never be bullied into silence.

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

It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.

I don't care about controversies. I am a young woman with an opinion about certain things. I can't be diplomatic. I am a feminist, and as long as I can be the voice of hundreds of girls out there, I will speak my mind. I don't care what other people think.

I did not want to be silent because I had to live in that situation for ever. It would be better to speak and be killed

Someone needs to tell the truth, but it shouldn't be my job.

Certain things happened in the early church. Women who had never had any freedom suddenly have the ability to stand up and speak and be treated as equals within the life of the church.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking. It cannot be so easily discovered if you allow him to remain silent and look wise, but if you let him speak, the secret is out and the world knows that he is a fool. So it is by the exposure of folly that it is defeated; not by the seclusion of folly, and in this free air of free speech men get into that sort of communication with one another which constitutes the basis of all common achievement.