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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

By speaking out of turn you refuse your turn to speak. — Patrick Rothfuss

Generally speaking, violence always arises out of impotence. It is the hope of those who have no power ... — Hannah Arendt

Never think I'm worried about losing sales by speaking out for human rights + gun control. I'd rather be broke than corrupt. — Bernard Schaffer

Once in his life - Laurent got only two words out before the man simply did what most people wanted to do when speaking with Laurent: he hit him. — C.S. Pacat

It's much easier to be convincing if you care about your topic. Figure out what's important to you about your message and speak from the heart. — Nicholas Boothman

Anyone who's making a huge impact or speaking out about what they believe in or who's brave enough to be themselves is a superhero to me. — Emma Stone

Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly. — Mahatma Gandhi

It only takes one voice, at the right pitch, to start an avalanche. — Dianna Hardy

Doreen had intuition. Everything she said was like a secret voice speaking straight out of my own bones. — Sylvia Plath

Speaking out and creating art that truly reflects the world we live in goes part of the way towards doing that. At least that's what I hope. — Justine Larbalestier

We can learn to work and speak when we are afraid in the same way we have learned to work and speak when we are tired. — Audre Lorde

sugar, if you ain't on speaking terms with The Lord, what right you got to ask Him to help you out? — Bette Lee Crosby

When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch. — Bette Davis

Analytically speaking, Sigmund Freud talked out of his arse — Dean Cavanagh

To stay quiet is as political an act as speaking out. — Arundhati Roy

And even when they refuse to listen, I'll keep talking anyway, hoping on a slim chance that the things inside my head are worth something to someone. — Nadege Richards

Antonia! This is your father speaking. Unless you've swooned onto the floor, I expect you to get yourself out here immediately. — Jane Carter Barrett

To hint at a fault does more mischief than speaking out; for whatever is left for the imagination to finish will not fail to be overdone ... — Hannah More

I am not going to stop speaking out on behalf of policies that I think are right - regardless of ideology, party or political expediency. — Harold Ford Jr.

It is certainly impossible to lose respect if you lose out of some stupid discussions. — Michael Bassey Johnson

In all my unhappiness I was moving, and suddenly, this moving became an expression, a speaking out — Mary Wigman

Speaking out as he had never before done in Congress, Lyndon Johnson in 1947 opposed most of Truman's Fair Deal. — Robert A. Caro

Because it is a thousand pities never to say what one feels, he thought... — Virginia Woolf

Technically speaking, you can build anything out of sand; it doesn't mean you do it. — Eric Bana

One open way of speaking introduces another open way of speaking, and draws out discoveries, like wine and love. — Michel De Montaigne

I am plain-speaking out of both sides of my mouth. — Mason Cooley

A thought can be cast down by speaking out loud words of resistance and words of God. — Sunday Adelaja

There are examples of ex-presidents speaking out. Jimmy Carter has not held back on a variety of issues. Harry Truman didn't. — Robert Dallek

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

Let them hear your voice so rarely that a simply-uttered word creates a hush of expectancy in the room. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Speaking of Quarterback nicknames, you hear they're calling Jay Cutler 50 cent? Because you only get two quarters out of him. — Frank Caliendo

What good are words if no one believes them? — Rachel L. Schade

My mistake was not in speaking out. No, my mistake was staying silent for too long. — Hannah Harrington

This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. — Euripides

So I sang out the barbarous words - karaoke from Hell. — Grant Morrison

Her knock started out speaking of her own innocence and beauty, and accidentally ended speaking of the innocence and beauty of all very young girls. — J.D. Salinger

To me, part of being an emcee is dedicated to speaking out about what's going on around us. — Lazarus Of Bethany

Out here, it's better safe than sorry, because generally speaking, too much of the time sorry means you're dead. — Patricia C. Wrede

I'm a Prince of Wales Trust ambassador, so I'm all about giving youth an education, a voice and a chance to not take the wrong road. — Benedict Cumberbatch

A public role endures for the literary high-command, as sages and seers, speaking out on social and political issues. — Tibor Fischer

I am strong and human with a mouth that works like a man's and a more intelligible brain, and I demand to be heard. — Caroline George

I write to say what I cannot speak — Ben Mitchell

When in doubt, just spit it out. That all challenges can be overcome by speaking the truth, no matter how itcomes out. — Dan Brown

If the person you're speaking to will think worse or less of the person you're speaking about, then it's gossip, so cut it out! — Bear Grylls

The act of speaking felt like shaking his head until the right phrases fell out. — Robert Repino

We need more people speaking out. This country is not overrun with rebels & free thinkers. It's overrun with sheep & conformists. — Bill Maher

When there is violence against any person in society, because he or she is different, it threatens us all. Only by speaking out are any of us safe. — Madeleine M. Kunin

When you're fighting for social justice, one of my biggest pet peeves is speaking out of ignorance. — Eva Longoria

Sorry, baby. Let's get out of here, he says, speaking with the intense, strained tones of a man with an erection. — Neal Stephenson

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud. — Coco Chanel

[T]he accumulation of things not spelled out, not properly articulated, may result in neurosis. — Joseph Brodsky

Thinking faith thoughts, and speaking faith words, will lead the heart out of defeat and into victory. — Kenneth E. Hagin

It took awhile for me to get used to speaking candidly about my own life. I got into it, and it turned out to be a wonderful experience. — Susan Lucci

It takes courage to stand up for yourself. I stand in honor, and no longer in fear of speaking out. — Catherine Jane Fisher

I won't stay silent anymore, not when speaking out can make a difference. — Romina Russell

You get so tired of political correctness. I'm noted for speaking out all my career. — Joe Arpaio

We monitor many frequencies. We listen always. Came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. It played us a mighty dub. — William Gibson

I see myself as the oldest griot tradition of speaking to truth out here. There's a dark side that people don't even know is there. — Malik Yusef

Finally, fighting for gay rights, speaking out in various places and making friends, men and women, was great. — George Weinberg

She's trying to change the subject, even though we weren't speaking out loud. — Colleen Hoover

When people think you are speaking against them as a group, they try to shut it down out here. — Steve Harvey

Speaking out is important for me because everyone should be treated equally. — Lance Bass

Churches were shut down and Stanislaw's father and three uncles had been sent to prison camps for speaking out. — Fannie Flagg

Protecting animals is very important to me, and I think speaking out against fur is an amazing cause. — Tim Howard

I'd rather die for speaking out, than to live and be silent. — Confucius

I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that. — George McGovern

I fall in love. More figuratively speaking, I am walking along the road one day when out of nowhere I am struck by lightning. — Ali Smith

Shades of gray. Even if our colors are bright, as long as we stay silent, we are like a gray mouse. In praise of our speaking out. — Lara Biyuts

You do speak." It came out as an accusation.
"When there's someone around worth speaking to. — Shana Abe

At 28 years old, seven years out of college, I was so convinced that my voice outed me as a fag that I had stopped speaking to people I didn't know. — Marlon James

I believe that the most essential element of our defense of freedom is our insistence on speaking out for the cause of religious liberty. — Ronald Reagan

I think it's important that scared gay kids who aren't out yet see hate speech challenged. — J.K. Rowling

You are the Worst Kind of Animal. A Butcher by Day and a Pussy Cat by Night. — Monroe Ariel

I think silence is one of the failures of people today. When they see an injustice or intolerance, and they stay silent - that's the worst thing. — Anonymous

Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me? — Oscar Wilde

I have had to pay a price for leaving Islam and for speaking out. I have to pay for round-the-clock security because of the death threats against me. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Sometimes words I think are small come out big. — Corey Ann Haydu