What I do on court is great, but what really matters is what happens off court, the people who you affect.
Coco GauffRead
If you are choosing silence, you're choosing the side of the oppressor.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Choosing to remain silent in the face of injustice supports oppression rather than promoting change.
This quote emphasizes the moral responsibility to speak out against injustice. By remaining silent, individuals implicitly endorse the actions of those who oppress, failing to support the struggles of the marginalized. It calls on people to recognize that their voice, or lack thereof, plays a significant role in the fight against oppression.
Themes
SilenceOppressionJusticeActivismCourageResponsibility
In practice
Example use cases
During a rally against systemic racism, this quote can inspire participants to find their voice.
More from Coco Gauff
All quotes βEveryone asks me how I stay calm on court and I think it's because I accepted who I am after overcoming low points in my life.
Coco GauffRead
The amount of people - and kids especially - that come up to me saying I inspire them is honestly better than any match I could win, just to know that I inspire another kid maybe to pick up a racquet or go through something they're facing at school.
Coco GauffRead
There's so many people going through so many, like, uncomfortable situations. For me to be - I mean, obviously being nervous is natural - but for me to think that winning a tennis match or losing a tennis match is the end of the world, I think just kind of shows what kind of privilege I have.
Coco GauffRead
Throughout my life, I was always the youngest to do things, which added hype that I didn't want. It added this pressure that I needed to do well fast.
Coco GauffRead
It's important for us to know that our worth isn't defined by how well we do in our sport.
Coco GauffRead
Similar quotes
To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.
Friedrich SchillerRead
I was political by coming out of the womb. I was gay, and I wanted to play tennis.
Martina NavratilovaRead
For each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, beautiful and tough as chestnut stanchions against our nightmare of weakness. Within these deep places, each one of us holds an incredible reserve of creativity and power, of unexamined and unrecorded emotion and feeling
Audre LordeRead
We may not have chosen the time, but the time has chosen us.
John LewisRead
I guess not being able to hear just made me adventurous and daring. And in most cases, that didn't make my parents very happy with me.
Marlee MatlinRead
Now, I've always known that there were bullies in the world. We've seen a lot of it in politics lately as well as in daily life. You see it where people who may be stronger, or bigger, or better with verbiage than other folks... show off. To me, that's what bullying is, showing off. It's saying, I'm better than you, I can take you down. Not just physically, but emotionally.
Whoopi GoldbergRead