"Speak out" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... clergy are at present divisible into three sections: an immense body who are ignorant and speak out; a small proportion who know and are silent; and a minute minority who know and speak according to their knowledge. By the clergy, I mean especially the Protestant clergy. Our great antagonist—I speak as a man of science—the Roman Catholic ...
— Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews • Thomas Henry Huxley
... written for us was precisely because the thing was not professional, and they knew they would be free of criticism. The columns have become a sort of town forum, my father said. Do you think you could get the same people to speak out under different conditions? Judge Damon, for instance, has repeatedly refused to write for the professional press. He could get a fat sum for such editorials as he writes for us if he wanted to sell them. Father said so. Besides, what's ...
— Paul and the Printing Press • Sara Ware Bassett
... shouted. 'I wish you would not be so foolish, Hannah, but speak out at once. What ...
— Aunt Judy's Tales • Mrs Alfred Gatty
... weather-beaten warrior, who took a simple view of his responsibilities. "I can't," he said to himself, "let the best of my subalterns get damaged like this for nothing. I must get to the bottom of this affair privately. He must speak out if the devil were in it. The colonel should be more than a father to these youngsters." And indeed he loved all his men with as much affection as a father of a large family can feel for every individual member of it. If human beings by ...
— A Set of Six • Joseph Conrad
... Mr. Macey," said the deputy clerk, with an air of anxious propriety, "I'm nowise a man to speak out of my place. As the ...
— Silas Marner - The Weaver of Raveloe • George Eliot
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