„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.“
Reported in Janelle Rohr, Animal rights: opposing viewpoints (1989), p. 100; Jane Goodall and Jennifer Lindsey, Jane Goodall: 40 Years at Gombe (1999), p. 6. Occasionally misreported in truncated form, as "The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves", in, e.g., quote honored on XOEarth eco money http://xoearth.org/jane-goodall/
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„Out of five hundred who speak glibly of love, not one can spell the first letter of his name.“
— Marie de France medieval poet
Tel cinc cent parolent d'amur,
N'en sevent pas le pior tur,
Ne que est loiax druerie.
"Graelent", line 77; p. 149.
Misattributed
— John Adams 2nd President of the United States 1735 - 1826
Letter to Thomas Jefferson (15 July 1817)
1810s
— Thomas Brooks English Puritan 1608 - 1680
Origine: Quotes from secondary sources, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers, 1895, P. 230.
„We have to speak up on behalf of those who cannot speak for themselves.“
— Peter Singer, libro Liberazione animale
Origine: Animal Liberation
— Folake Solanke Nigerian lawyer 1932
Origine: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/03/kidnap-of-schoolgirls-stop-paying-ransom-to-criminals-solanke-tells-fg/ Folake Solanke in 2021 speaking out against the ills in society.
„If you speak English, you speak at least a part of more than a hundred languages.“
— Anu Garg Indian author 1967
As quoted in * http://learningenglish.voanews.com/content/a-23-2005-11-15-voa1-83125067/117153.html
2005-11-15
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— Malala Yousafzai Pakistani children's education activist 1997
Statements in PBS interview with Margaret Warner (October 11, 2013)
„I speak from ignorance.
Who once learned much, but speaks from ignorance now.“
— Nathaniel Tarn American poet, essayist, anthropologist, and translator 1928
Poem Last of the Chiefs published in: Nathaniel Tarn (1965) Old savage, young city. p. 18.
„Not without reason did he who had the right to do so speak of the foolishness of the cross.“
— Miguel de Unamuno 19th-20th century Spanish writer and philosopher 1864 - 1936
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), X : Religion, the Mythology of the Beyond and the Apocatastasis
Contesto: Not without reason did he who had the right to do so speak of the foolishness of the cross. Foolishness, without a doubt, foolishness. And the American humorist, Oliver Wendell Holmes, was not altogether wide of the mark in making one of the characters in his ingenious conversations say that he thought better of those who were confined in a lunatic asylum on account of religious mania than of those who, while professing the same religious principles, kept their wits and appeared to enjoy life very well outside the asylums. But those who are at large, are they not really, thanks to God, mad too? Are there not mild madnesses, which not only permit us to mix with our neighbors without danger to society, but which rather enable us to do so, for by means of them we are able to attribute a meaning and finality to life and society?
— Ibukun Awosika Nigerian business magnate 1962
As quoted in Season Life Journal (16 August 2015) http://www.seasonedlifejournal.com/2015/08/16-nigerian-inspirational-quotes-of.html by Abraham Ologundudu
„Come out from within yourself, speak out.“
— Dejan Stojanovic poet, writer, and businessman 1959
“No!,” p. 85
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “A Game”
„People with virtue must speak out; People who speak are not all virtuous.“
— Confucius Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher -551 - -479 a.C.
„She should, at the very least, be speaking out more. And if people don't listen, then resign.“
— Bono Irish rock musician, singer of U2 1960
Bono: The Rolling Stone Interview (2017)
Contesto: [On the persecutions of Rohingya in Myanmar, and Aung San Suu Kyi's lack of response to them] That is very hard, and I'm – I feel kind of nauseous about that. I have genuinely felt ill, because I can't quite believe what the evidence all points to. But there is ethnic cleansing. It really is happening, and she has to step down because she knows it's happening. I am sure she has many great reasons in her head why she is not stepping down. Maybe it's that she doesn't want to lose the country back to the military. But she already has, if the pictures are what we go by, anyway. The human rights that are being torched, the lives that are being burned out in Rakhine State are more important than a unity without them. … She should, at the very least, be speaking out more. And if people don't listen, then resign. This is all just really troubling. I am still confounded by it, actually. I am still confounded by it, actually. … Is it that we project onto people who we want them to be? We find somebody we like, and we tell ourselves that a person exists that is better than us. More able than us. A truer moral compass than us. We imbue them with all these qualities. We do that with people. I think I have had it done to me. People have their version of you, they project what they want to see on you. Maybe she was always a politician. She was not a saint. She was not some sort of savior. Maybe we were always wrong, and we just have to accept we were wrong. Or maybe something terrible has happened to her that we just don't know.
— Jane Goodall British primatologist, ethologist, and anthropologist 1934
Origine: Reason for Hope: a Spiritual Journey (2000), p. xx
