Speaking Up Quotes

"Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes."

Maggie Kuhn

"Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed."

William Faulkner

"Your silence will not protect you."

Audre Lorde

"I raise up my voice – not so that I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard."

Malala Yousafzai

“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”

Desmond Tutu

“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”

Elie Wiesel

“Where you see wrong or inequality or injustice, speak out, because this is your country, this is your democracy.”

“First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out, because I was not a socialist. Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak for me.”

Martin Niemöller

“The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.”

Albert Einstein

“Be not afraid, but speak, and hold not thy peace.”

The Bible (Acts 18:9)

“Lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid.”

The Bible (Isaiah 40:9)

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”

“Your silence will not protect you.”

Audre Lorde

“When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.”

Malala Yousafzai

“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”

Coco Chanel

“If the deaf are to hear, the sound has to be very loud.”

Bhagat Singh