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View definitions for speaks up

speaks up

verb as in assert

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“The number of people that are aware and facilitating this type of sexual exploitation of vulnerable women is many, many, many, and yet no one speaks up, and that is troubling,” Graw Lary said.

“It delegitimizes internal dissent against the status quo. So anyone who speaks up against the status quo, whatever that is, is by definition an outsider,” he said.

“Now, what we're seeing is pretty much everyone who speaks up is essentially red meat on the barbecue,” he added.

From Salon

The animated Douglass speaks up for change achieved through “patience and compromise.”

She went on to say that "nobody speaks up because they're so scared for their jobs," adding: "I was terrified for my job."

From BBC

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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