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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
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
If it were bad songs, yeah, I'd speak up, but they're not bad songs. -- Tom Araya
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
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
Heroes have a rough time because they stand up when they ought not to, they speak when they ought not to; they always have to go that extra mile. -- George Foreman
On set I keep myself to myself; I'd rather the director speak up. I'm not gonna direct a younger actor. I think the power of example works best, actually. -- Gary Oldman
I grew up in a country where I remember my parents not being able to have a conversation on the phone. The walls had ears, and you couldn't speak freely. -- Jan Koum
The people of Britain want a Home Secretary who will give them back their streets. They want a Home Secretary who will speak up for the victim, not the criminal. -- William Hague
I had the honor of speaking with Asimov. The album ended up being something not directly related to Asimov, but related instead to the concept of the power of robotics. -- Alan Parsons
I feel very responsible for young models of colour. They come to me and tell me they're not getting jobs, and I do what I can to speak up for them. -- Naomi Campbell
When women break that taboo and they're not afraid to drive that car by herself - that's it. Now she has the guts to speak up for herself and take action. -- Manal al-Sharif
I'm not one of those people who wake up chatting. I usually don't want to speak for the first 10 or 20 minutes. And I don't really want you to talk to me either! -- Queen Latifah
Speak from your heart, not your head. You speak from your head, you can wind up getting yourself in a lot of crap. You speak from your heart, I think you're pretty safe. -- Jake Roberts
Being selected Most Improved was a special individual award because when I speak to young people I always try to tell them the importance about it's not where you start but where you end up. -- Kevin Johnson
If you are not happy with something, you should change it. So I went to a lot of therapy, and finally, I am able to speak up for myself: You are going to hear me roar! -- Katy Perry
He would still see it as his duty to shut up and get on with it, not cause any trouble. In our own time we've made a hero of the rebel, and it's more heroic to speak up. -- Eddie Campbell
I try to be careful to not just say it's a greatest hits show because we've also made efforts to keep people up to date so to speak because we continually write and record and put out albums. -- Gerry Beckley
I was hoping that I could say stuff about mental illness that maybe people didn't know. You know, speak up for bipolar disorder and let people know a little bit more about it that they may not have known. -- Eric Millegan
I think the world's a little smaller these days. With the Internet and the availability of people, the pool of English speaking actors - not just American actors, but Brits, Australians, New Zealanders, Irish. We're all up for grabs. -- Sonya Walger
My dad came from Cuba when he was a teenager not speaking English. And I grew up here speaking Spanglish. That's the world in which I grew up, and that's a world in which a lot of second generation immigrants find themselves. -- Ted Cruz
The thing is when you're... well-enough known, you get asked to speak places, and they don't really think about whether or not you're qualified. They just want somebody that will be a drawing card for the audience. So it's up to you to decide whether or not it's foolish to get up and speak to these people. -- Alan Alda
Not speaking up against pure evil is equal to co-operating with it -- Constance Chuks Friday
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
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

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