43 Quotes About Speaking-up

You should have spoken up sooner." her grandmother answered. "No need to bear pain unless you have to.

What good are words if no one believes them?

...it only takes one voice, at the right pitch, to start an avalanche.

Speaking up is important. Yet to speak up without listening is like banging pots and pans together: Even if it gets you attention, it’s not going to get you respect.

there were timeswhen i needed. no.andit was not there for me.– the third parent

When God grabs you by the scruff of the neck then although theoretically you have a freedom to say 'no', in another sense, actually, you can't say no because it's like Jeremiah. 'God, you have cheated me. You called me to be a prophet against the people that I love, and all that I proclaim is words of doom and judgement.' And yet if I say "I will shut up", I can't.

If you don't like it, say something.

It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent

When you have something to say, silence is a lie—and tyranny feeds on lies.