speaking up quotes

When I got somethin‘ to say, I’ll say it.

I am not going to be a mouthpiece for language that I detest.

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

If I have the chance to say something, I will say it – but that doesn’t obligate me to always say something, or to shed light on every problem, as if I were a lawmaker.

For years, decades, the system has taught us to stay quiet. They’ve made us believe that those who take to the streets to speak up are crazy, criminals, troublemakers.

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.

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.

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.