Speaking Up Quotations

I was raised on the values of speaking up and making a positive difference in a very political family that believed in the importance of public service.

There's something so healthy about young people speaking up in unity.

So now is the time, more than ever, for those who truly value all the principles of democracy, especially including dissent, to be the most forceful in speaking up, standing up and speaking out.

Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.

Speaking up for America has become a lonely ordeal.

It's very often the artist who gives a voice to the voiceless by speaking up when no one else will.

My seat has been the seat of kings, and I will have no rascal to succeed me.

I wouldn't call it a silver lining, but with more women speaking up, online harassment is beginning to be taken more seriously.

I've learned the importance of speaking up for myself and voicing my opinions and my ideas. I'm definitely a shy person.

I guess just personally I've become a bolder person in my day-to-day. I think a lot of it came from moving to Brooklyn. I just sort of became an adult and started speaking up for myself and not apologising for myself.

thinking beings have an urge to speak, speaking beings have an urge to think.

There was no one left to speak for me

I have one thing in common with the emerging black nations of Africa: We both have voices, and we are discovering what we can do with them.

Let's acknowledge the difference between speaking up with intention and speaking up for attention.

[To the heckler who said, 'If you were my wife I'd poison you':] No, you wouldn't. I'd do it myself.

I would tell him that shoot me but first listen to me. And I would tell him that education is my right and education is the right of your daughter and son a well. And I'm speaking up for them. I'm speaking up for peace.

[To the bishop who suggested the widowed queen now consider herself 'as married to Christ':] That's what I call twaddle!

You can be the outcast or be the backlash of somebody's lack of love. Or you can start speaking up.