William Lyon Mackenzie King Quotes

If somebody does something wrong to someone around me, I can be firm. But that's always to protect someone to whom wrong is being done to.

We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.

I won't let anybody get away with anything just because he is little.

I've always wanted to fight for people who didn't have arms. I've always wanted to speak up for people who don't have a voice. I've always wanted to protect people who couldn't protect themselves. It's my nature. It's my instinct.

The bravery shown by Azza Suleiman who dared to stand up for another woman who was being beaten, and paid a heavy price in doing so, is both awe-inspiring and humbling.

Tell my friends to be brave and fearless and loyal to the great common people.

From a very young age I was someone who stood up for others and myself.

I will stand up for all of those who feel they can't stand up for themselves.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands in times of challenge and controversy. The true neighbor will risk his position, his prestige, and even his life for the welfare of others. In dangerous valleys and hazardous pathways, he will lift some bruised and beaten brother to a higher and more noble life.

I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, and that long knife would not be the end of Scudder if I could play the game in his place.

Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else.

I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.

When people ask what were the qualities of Bobby Kennedy that they most admired, it was first that he was tough. Second, he told the truth and third, he stood up for the little guy.

Somebody has to stand when other people are sitting. Somebody has to speak when other people are quiet.

There is little more powerful than when truth joins action.

Abraham Lincoln because he was a man filled with great compassion who believed that all men are created free and equal, and was not afraid to stand on that platform. The way Lincoln lived his life has served me well in mine.

I think my dad is this great, wonderful... man with a lot of integrity, who is fighting for things he believes in and is serious in what he wants to see happen and serious in helping people.

It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.

It's one thing to fight for what you believe in, another thing to fight for what others believe in.

If somebody is disrespecting somebody, we should step in - even at the risk of getting slugged over the head.

I think I have a gene in me to always fight for the underdog, which I've done since I was a kid.

When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.

I have always battled injustice. As a child, I used to fight on the side of my friends when boys terrorized them.

We have to speak up for those who can't do it for themselves.

My mom has always taught me to stand up for people who don't have a voice.