Quote #88199
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.
William Faulkner
About This Quote
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Interpretation
The line is a call to moral courage: speaking out is framed not as aggression but as a duty on behalf of “honesty and truth and compassion.” By pairing these virtues against “injustice and lying and greed,” the quote casts public speech as an ethical counterweight to systemic harms. Its conditional second sentence (“If people all over the world…”) imagines collective action—many small acts of witness accumulating into social transformation. The emphasis on “raise your voice” suggests that silence enables wrongdoing, while ordinary individuals, not only leaders, possess agency to “change the earth.”



