Voice of the Voiceless Quotes

My father was a politician. My grandfather was a politician too, maybe it's an innate idea of representing people that we have in our family. I won't go into politics. I think I can provide the voice for the voiceless through law.

Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter.

Go out and speak for the inarticulate and submerged.

It's not that people want to be like me, but some want to say the things I say and can't because they're afraid. I say it for them.

The one thing I have never been afraid of is standing before important people and speaking my mind. I represent women who may never have the opportunity to go to the UN or meet with a president. I'm never afraid to speak truth to power.

I never want to sound preachy about youth and feminism, but I feel like there aren't enough young people coming out about their concerns and opinions.

I want to speak for people who can't speak; they're afraid to speak.

Times of Terror are Times of Eloquence

I will stand up for all of those who feel they can't stand up for themselves.

The cry of the oppressed has entered not only into my ears, but into my soul, so that while I live, I cannot hold my peace.

So I decided the only place I can speak to the world is from outside Israel.

We must speak up for those who do not dare to speak, those who are not allowed to, and those who cannot.

The role of the intellectual, so it is said, is to speak truth to power. Noam Chomsky has dismissed this pious tag on two grounds. For one thing, power knows the truth already; it is just busy trying to conceal it. For another, it is not those in power who need the truth, but those they oppress.

I think they saw me as something like a deliverer, a way out. My means of expression, my music, was a way in which a lot of people wished they could express themselves and couldn't.

I believe I've got to speak up for my people.

I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.

The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.

Back in the day, I was afraid to speak out. When I get music behind me, it feels like I can soothe the hurt and put it in vocals and say it to the room the way I feel it.

I believe that when it comes to major foreign policy issues, many prefer to have black people seen and not heard.

I know it really sounds cheesy, but I did feel a duty to try to tell the stories of people who couldn't speak for themselves.

We have to speak up for those who can't do it for themselves.

Speak up for the people that nobody speaks for.

People will tell you for years whatever you have to say isn't important at all. So when you have someone who breaks the mold and speaks up - and you see and identify with that - they become your hero.

Someone has to stand up and speak for the freedoms of the little guy.

Each book I write is a shout into the silence and a prayer and a plea for change.