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"Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent... It is, in the deepest sense, a privilege as well as a duty to speak out to many thousands of people."
"There are two kinds of genius. The first and highest may be said to speak out of the eternal to the present, and must compel its age to understand it; the second understands its age, and tells it what it wishes to be told."
"The least I can do is speak out for the hundreds of chimpanzees who, right now, sit hunched, miserable and without hope, staring out with dead eyes from their metal prisons. They cannot speak for themselves."
"All my writings may be considered tasks imposed from within, their source was a fateful compulsion. What I wrote were things that assailed me from within myself. I permitted the spirit that moved me to speak out."
"Martin Luther King wanted to be morally consistent and speak out against various things that were wrong, not just racism."
"What the father kept silent the son speaks out."
"Muslim women must stand up and speak out about who we are, what we believe and where we are going. I think we need to know that our counterparts in the west are also willing to listen and reciprocate."
"We must know what we think and speak out, even at the risk of unpopularity."
"If people are being downtrodden and mistreated, it's our obligation, it's our responsibility to speak out, not just for ourselves but for others."
"When we see others victimized we must speak out. We have to seek justice for everybody."
"President Bush broke the law and lied to the American people when he unilaterally authorized secret wiretaps of U.S. citizens. But rather than focus on this constitutional crisis, Attorney General Gonzales is cracking down on critics of his friend and boss. Our nation is strengthened, not weakened, by those whistle-blowers who are courageous enough to speak out on violations of the law."
"The officers do not beat the men; the officers and men receive equal treatment. Soldiers are free to hold meetings and speak out. Trivial formalities have been done away with and the accounts are open for all to inspect."
"I feel a moral obligation to speak out at this key moment in human history - it is a moment for action."
"All names of good and evil are images; they do not speak out, they only hint. He is a fool who seeks knowledge from them."
"Speak out tirelessly with conviction."
"I am not a national leader. If I am a national leader I can speak out all that I want."
"Muslim leaders around the globe have to continue working with us to decisively and unequivocally reject the hateful ideology that groups like ISIL and al Qaeda promote. To speak out against not just acts of violence, but also those interpretations of Islam that are incompatible with the values of religious tolerance, mutual respect, and human dignity."
"We will not hesitate to speak out when we see actions that contradict those values."
"But I'm here to say that when we do speak out, we're going to do so because the United States of America does believe, and will always stand for, a certain set of universal values."
"Better to remain silent and thought a fool, than to speak out and confirm that you didn't do the assigned readings before the strategic planning retreat."
