Synonyms for speak up
speak up

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1. opine, speak up, speak out, animadvert, sound offverb

   express one's opinion openly and without fear or hesitation

   "John spoke up at the meeting"

   Synonyms:
   opine, complain, imagine, speak out, strike up, plain, kick, kvetch, guess, animadvert, quetch, sound off, think, suppose, reckon

2. speak upverb

   speak louder; raise one's voice

   "The audience asked the lecturer to please speak up"

   Synonyms:
   opine, animadvert, speak out, sound off

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1. Rachel Crooks:

   I could either keep quiet or speak up. I spoke up. I said, 'Me Too.'.

2. Arthur Liu:

   I’ve kind of accepted my life to be like this because of what I chose to do in 1989, to speak up against the government. And I know the Chinese government will extend their long hands into any corner in the world, i’m going to continue to enjoy life and live life as I want to live. I’m not going to let this push me down and I’m not going to let them succeed.

3. House Speaker John Boehner:

   I think the animosity exhibited by our administration toward the prime minister of Israel is reprehensible, and I think that the pressure that they've put on him over the last four or five years have frankly pushed him to the point where he had to speak up.

4. Mahele Nyota:

   I don't want this to happen to other families, if you want to change things, you have to speak up.

5. Jeremy Shaver:

   It is appalling and outrageous that anyone would cast aside the American flag in a public park and replace it with an ugly symbol of the Nazi regime, we all have a responsibility to speak up when such hateful incidents take place in our communities.