Speak Quotes

Many people, especially ignorant people, want to punish you for speaking the truth, for being correct, for being you. Never apologize for being correct, or for being years ahead of your time. If you’re right and you know it, speak your mind. Speak your mind. Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is still the truth.

A waterfall cannot be silent, just as the wisdom! When they speak, the voice of power speaks!

No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.

The ones who have a voice must speak for those who are voiceless.

Actions speak louder than words; let your words teach and your actions speak.

When I liberate myself, I liberate others. If you don't speak out ain't nobody going to speak out for you.

I admit it: I am louder than the average human being and have no fear of speaking my mind. These traits don't come from the color of my skin but from an unwavering belief in my own intelligence.

It's your obligation to speak the truth, and everyone can either take it or leave it. But truth must be in us. We live in such a poverty of truth today.

Have more than you show, Speak less than you know.

To speak another language is to have another soul

Not the ones speaking the same language, but the ones sharing the same feeling understand each other.

You cannot be afraid to speak up and speak out for what you believe. You have to have courage, raw courage.

Every time we turn our heads the other way when we see the law flouted, when we tolerate what we know to be wrong, when we close our eyes and ears to the corrupt because we are too busy or too frightened, when we fail to speak up and speak out, we strike a blow against freedom and decency and justice.

Speak the truth. Transparency breeds legitimacy.

Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.

Words spoken can not be recalled so think twice before you speak.

I have made a pact with my tongue, not to speak when my heart is disturbed.

There is a gentle thought that often springs to life in me, because it speaks of you.

We can speak and think only of what exists. And what exists is uncreated and imperishable for it is whole and unchanging and complete. It was not or nor shall be different since it is now, all at once, one and continuous.

October 6, 1774 I met those of our society who had votes in the ensuing election, and advised them 1. To vote, without fee or reward, for the person they judged most worthy 2. To speak no evil of the person they voted against, and 3. To take care their spirits were not sharpened against those that voted on the other side.

I loved to dance because I was scared to speak. When I was moving, I could feel.

O Lord Eternal, move and govern my tongue to speak the truth.

The ministry of Christianity is the ministry of the Spirit. It is the Spirit of God that inhabits the words, that speaks to the spirit of another and reveals Christ in and through him.

How else would God speak to me, if not through my imagination?

Until I am free to write bilingually and to switch codes without having always to translate, while I still have to speak English or Spanish when I would rather speak Spanglish, and as long as I have to accommodate the English speakers rather than having them accommodate me, my tongue will be illegitimate. I will no longer be made to feel ashamed of existing. I will have my voice: Indian, Spanish, white. I will have my serpent's tongue - my woman's voice, my sexual voice, my poet's voice. I will overcome the tradition of silence.