Quotes by Speaking Up 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 speaking-up years moving 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 speaking-up silver taken It's very often the artist who gives a voice to the voiceless by speaking up when no one else will. Barbra Streisand speaking-up voice artist 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 speaking-up being-yourself hurt Calvin: Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we can think faster than we speak? Hobbes: Probably so we can think twice. Bill Watterson speaking-up talking thinking My seat has been the seat of kings, and I will have no rascal to succeed me. Elizabeth I speaking-up succeed kings 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 speaking-up silence courage [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 speaking-up wife poison 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 speaking-up moving thinking 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 speaking-up shy ideas What makes me vulnerable is speaking up about topics that may be controversial to others. Gabrielle Bernstein speaking-up topics may thinking beings have an urge to speak, speaking beings have an urge to think. Hannah Arendt speaking-up speak thinking 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 speaking-up mother son For every time we regret keeping still, there are about ten times we regret speaking up. James Alexander Thom speaking-up regret stills 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 speaking-up democracy principles 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 speaking-up silence men [On refusing to be silenced:] I do not pretend to be John the Baptist rebuking the Pharisees. I do not claim to be Nathan upbraiding David. I aspire only to be Balaam's ass, castigating his master. Katharina Zell speaking-up baptists pharisees 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. Malala Yousafzai speaking-up daughter son 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 speaking-up tongue men 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 speaking-up support cities 12»