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Speaking up for America has become a lonely ordeal. -- Maurice Saatchi
For every time we regret keeping still, there are about ten times we regret speaking up. -- James Alexander Thom
My seat has been the seat of kings, and I will have no rascal to succeed me. -- Elizabeth I
It's very often the artist who gives a voice to the voiceless by speaking up when no one else will. -- Barbra Streisand
You can be the outcast or be the backlash of somebody's lack of love. Or you can start speaking up. -- Sara Bareilles
[To the heckler who said, 'If you were my wife I'd poison you':] No, you wouldn't. I'd do it myself. -- Emmeline Pankhurst
Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world. -- Melinda Gates
[To the bishop who suggested the widowed queen now consider herself 'as married to Christ':] That's what I call twaddle! -- Queen Victoria
I've learned the importance of speaking up for myself and voicing my opinions and my ideas. I'm definitely a shy person. -- Fiona Gubelmann
I wouldn't call it a silver lining, but with more women speaking up, online harassment is beginning to be taken more seriously. -- Anita Sarkeesian
I believe it is the responsibility and duty of those in high-profile positions to give a voice to people whose voices cannot be heard. -- Donatella Versace
shall I, for fear of feeble man who shall die, hold my peace? Shall I for fear of scoffs and frowns, refrain my tongue? Ah, no! -- Maria W. Stewart
More women speaking up and seizing the helm of power can create its own momentum. It can change the culture that helps perpetuate those external forces. -- Nancy Birdsall
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. -- Miriam Makeba
you must cry out if you want help. It is no use whatsoever to suffer in silence. Who will succour the drowning man if he does not clamour for his life? -- Kamala Markandaya
Don't make it necessary for me to complain about you to Christ crucified. (There is no one else I can complain to, since there is no one greater than you on earth. -- St. Catherine of Siena
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. -- Jim Hightower
courage isn't simply a matter of leading charges: sometimes it consists in speaking up, sometimes in stoic silence, sometimes in forging ahead, sometimes in circumspection, and sometimes in nothing less than preserving our own humanity. -- Elizabeth Samet
Whether that's speaking up in your job or asking for a promotion or saying, 'I think I can do that.' Using your voice in ways that might initially scare you. That can be being an architect of change. -- Maria Shriver
Let others know when they have hurt or angered you. By not speaking up when someone insults or mistreats you, you are inadvertently giving permission for him or her to continue to treat you in the same way in the future. -- Beverly Engel
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. -- Fernando Torres
Your projects can often demonstrative new and innovative approaches that can be supported and eventually replicated with greater support from the public sector. Showing up and speaking up at city council and state legislature hearings are essential, but so is the project work. -- Mark Winne
We talk a lot about our right to freedom of expression, but we need to talk more about our responsibility to freedom of expression. We all want to be heard, but let's acknowledge the difference between speaking up with intention and speaking up for attention -- Monica Lewinsky
I speak up when it's needed. -- Torrey Smith
If there's something wrong, speak up! -- Pete Seeger
Terrorism will spill over if you don't speak up. -- Malala Yousafzai
The First Amendment rejects red tape, cover-up and double-speak. -- Roy Barnes
I grew up in New York in an English-speaking environment. -- Erik Estrada
The protestor I think will speak up for the world's poorest. -- Bill Gates
There's something so healthy about young people speaking up in unity. -- Robbie Robertson
I grew up speaking both languages, and for me that's really important. -- Jon Secada
Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant. -- Orson Welles
I speak Spanish because I grew up overseas in Spain, Uruguay and Argentina. -- Bitsie Tulloch
If it were bad songs, yeah, I'd speak up, but they're not bad songs. -- Tom Araya
Someone has to stand up and speak for the freedoms of the little guy. -- Christopher Monckton
I speak French, and I grew up with French, so my English is Franglais. -- Corneille Ewango
If you have the feeling that something is wrong, don't be afraid to speak up. -- Fred Korematsu
I grew up with the piano. I learned its language as I learned to speak. -- Keith Jarrett
The landscape you grow up in speaks to you in a way that nowhere else does. -- Molly Parker
I grew up listening to people speaking broken English. I probably picked that up. And I probably speak English almost as a second language. -- Christopher Walken
I grew up in a physical world, and I speak English. The next generation is growing up in a digital world, and they speak social. -- Angela Ahrendts
I used to be incredibly afraid of public speaking. I started with five people, then I'd speak to 10 people. I made it up to 75 people, up to 100, and now I can speak to a very large group, and it feels similar to speaking to you one-on-one. -- Robin S. Sharma
Not speaking up against pure evil is equal to co-operating with it -- Constance Chuks Friday
Let's acknowledge the difference between speaking up with intention and speaking up for attention. -- Monica Lewinsky
What makes me vulnerable is speaking up about topics that may be controversial to others. -- Gabrielle Bernstein
If I could have any power, I think flying would definitely be up there! Along with speaking every language. -- Roxanne McKee
I was extremely shy and had a terrible fear of public speaking. But I had fallen in love with stand-up. -- Kumail Nanjiani
The band never actually split up - we just stopped speaking to each other and went our own separate ways. -- Boy George
I studied in American school, so yes, I grew up speaking English and Spanish. Obviously, Spanish is my first language. -- Eiza Gonzalez
I hadn't really noticed that I had a hearing problem. I just thought most people had given up on speaking clearly. -- Hal Linden
Granddaddy used to handle snakes in church. Granny drank strychnine. I guess you could say I had a leg up, genetically speaking. -- Wesley Strick
Each mental act opens up a new dimension of actuality. In a manner of speaking, your slightest thought gives birth to worlds. -- Jane Roberts
Any sort of plain speaking is better than the nauseous sham good fellowship our democratic public men get up for shop use. -- George Bernard Shaw
I think the music was speaking to that opening up of whose voice gets heard and how multidimensional that voice can be. -- Dar Williams
Send your life to a whole new level! Zip up the negative words and start speaking faith and victory into your future. -- Joel Osteen
By not speaking you don't get rid of the story, you just open up a silence, which can be just as loud. -- Matt Smith
I'm not violent, I don't believe in killing people, but standing up for yourself, speaking out against injustice, is another form of vengeance. -- Eva Gabrielsson
Speaking uses us up, speeds us up. Without prayer, that act of confession for merely existing, one might live forever and not know it. -- Gregory Maguire
I was very frightened when I turned forty. I suddenly thought I ought to wake up and be speaking with the voice of God. -- Jane Rule
Speaking generally, people who are drawn to journalism are interested in what happens from the ground up less than they are from the top down. -- Tom Brokaw
Bernie Sanders is usually speaking to the converted. He fires them up. It`s a completely different style of campaigning that he`s allergic to. -- Steve Kornacki
Wherever you find a wife and mother-in-law slugging it out, you'll find a son who's not speaking up to either his mother or his wife. -- Harriet Lerner
I have seen hate born of fear, hate speaking in the name of God and truth, hate holding up a distorting mirror to fellow human beings. -- Bill Moyers
So I got home, and the phone was ringing. I picked it up, and said 'Who's speaking please?' And a voice said 'You are.' -- Tim Vine
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. -- Scott McClellan
I am glad to see the wheels are moving at last toward comprehensive immigration reform after last year's election. I am glad that immigrants are speaking up. -- Andrew Lam
We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past. -- Malala Yousafzai
People will hate you for speaking the truth, but you've gotta learn to stand up to them, so don't be offended if I say something you don't like. -- Eminem
I picked up business skills along the way, but there are things you learn at school like speaking the language of business so you can speak with CEOs. -- Shawne Merriman
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it. -- William James
I feel growing up in Mumbai is an advantage, as we grow up speaking so many languages that when we go abroad, it becomes easier to learn new languages. -- Zubin Mehta
I didn't grow up speaking Spanish, and the interesting thing was, we would watch these novelas and you didn't have to speak Spanish to understand what was going on. -- Eva Longoria
Stage actors are usually much more conscious of speaking up and making sure that everyone can hear in the back of the theatre; a film actor probably thinks of that a little less. -- Clint Eastwood
The single hardest part of leading any organization is knowing what is going on. There's too much noise in the system, too much complexity: you absolutely depend on people speaking up and raising concerns. -- Margaret Heffernan

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