Voice of Dissent Quotes

Many people are never happier than when they get the opportunity to complain, while others are deeply unhappy with how things are but just accept the fact. Complaint occurs when we refuse to accept that things are wrong and we do something about it, even if that something is simply articulating our unease.

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

When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.

If you don't speak out now when it matters, when would it matter for you to speak out?

I have a lot to say, and if I'm not No. 1, I can't say it.

Anyone who refuses to speak out off campus does not deserve to be listened to on campus.

I support anybody that does have a grievance to be able to air it, and that's it.

If you love your country you’ll find ways somehow to speak out to do what you think is right.

I claim the right to take a stand once in a while.

To be silent is to be passive.

I do have a mouth - I will say. I speak up when I see things I don't care for.

Decision has greater virtue and force if taken after there has been eloquent dissent.

Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.

I would very honestly just tell you that what I tried to do was simply respond to inquiries from people as they came in. Where I've thought I could say something useful, I've tried to add a voice that was, frankly, a dissident voice earlier on, but one that I think has become a more mainstream voice-and not because I've shifted. I think that the critique I had of what was going on in our financial system from six, eight years ago-after seeing some of what we've suffered through and even since the cataclysm itself-in terms of the structural changes.