Quotes about Standing Up

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Andrew Jackson

One man with courage makes a majority.

George Orwell

In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

Dolores Ibarruri

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

Edmund Burke

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Winston Churchill

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Albanian Proverb

It is better to die standing, than to live bending.

See Delores Ibarruri {604321} and Franklin Delano Roosevelt used the notion in his Third Inaugural Address {32529}. But earlier Mexican Revolutionary Emiliano Zapata uttered a similar sentiment: {46999}.

Rosa Parks

People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not tired physically... No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.

Mark Twain

A patriot is someone who stands for his country always, and for his government when it is deserved.

Illuminati

There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women. These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion, give them hints of emancipation from the tyranny of public opinion, and of standing up for themselves; it will be an immense relief to their enslaved minds to be freed from any one bond of restraint, and it will fire them the more, and cause them to work for us with zeal, without knowing that they do so, for they will only be indulging their own desire of personal admiration

The Illuminati was a secret society. At the time, anyone who differed with the Church on issues of philosophy, ethics or religion could be tortured and burned at the stake, and anyone who criticized the Monarchy could be tortured and hung or beheaded. The result was the concept of a secret society of which the Illuminati was one.

Dolores Ibarruri

Better to die on one's feet than live on one’s knees., Mejor morir a pie que vivir rodillas.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt used the phrase in his Third Inaugural Address {32529}. But the earliest expression that we have found is the Mexican leader Emiliano Zapata {46999} Franklin Delano Roosevelt later used the phrase in his Third Inaugural Address {32529}. But the earliest expression that we have found is the Mexican leader Emiliano Zapata {46999}. This was one of the great quotations to come out of the Spanish Revolution. It inspired freedom loving people the world over, then and through this day.

John Calvin

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Martin Luther King Jr.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice.

Edward R. Murrow

We're not descended from fearful men - not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular.

Bret Stephens

Everything Republicans once claimed to advocate - entitlement reform, free trade, standing up to dictators, encouraging the march of freedom around the world - turns out to be negotiable and reversible, depending on Donald Trump's whims and the furies of his base.

JoJo Siwa

It's a very hard goal. But, what I want is to tell people who are getting bullied to stand up to the bully and not let it be OK - tell a teacher, the principal, or your parents. I want people to stand up and to be confident.

Elie Wiesel

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Those of us who decided to work for democracy in Burma made our choice in the conviction that the danger of standing up for basic human rights in a repressive society was preferable to the safety of a quiescent life in servitude

Prevented by the Military from ever taking office

Jerry Lewis

I will do whatever is necessary to make better the stupidity on my part - and therefore go after those who are acting stupid themselves. It's not popular. You don't make friends when you do that. And I couldn't care less.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.