You can’t be a feminist in the United States and stand up for the rights of the American woman and then say that you don’t want to stand up for the rights of Palestinian women in Palestine. It’s all connected.
I grew up really timid, anxious kid, and I never really had to stand up for myself.
You know what happens if I walk out on the stage in Montreal? They stand up and they cheer for three or four minutes. It just brings tears to your eyes, because it’s a love affair.
You need to be brave to able to stand up to tough atmospheres and against top players.
I realized that I’ve lived half my life already, and it’s time to believe in – and stand up for – myself.
You see, the thing is, if you don’t do anything to your face, and you get old, and you can stand up, and you can remember your lines, the work is there.
I wanted to be an actress. I think it had a lot to do with being a kid and watching how every time my dad would stand up to talk people would applaud… that was pretty cool.
We must continue to stand up for what’s right and push for bipartisan, comprehensive immigration reform.
As an entertainer, I try to do projects that reflect a woman having the ability to stand up for herself.
You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, ‘I’m a representative.’
Stand up and face your fears, or they will defeat you.
Lots of people do stand up shows with no narrative, but I love a beginning, a middle and an end.
The charity that I work for is the Johnson Cancer Research Foundation at UCLA. I also do work with Stand Up To Cancer.
We must renew our commitment to instilling high moral character in our students, to teaching them to treat each other with kindness, to stand up for what is right, and to respect the diversity of backgrounds and experiences that strengthen our country.
I couldn’t ever stand up in front of an audience on my own and talk to them. It would be awful; I couldn’t bear to do it.
I’ve got to stand up for the sport.
God has allowed me through the BSB to minister in a positive way, encouraging people to stand up for what they believe.
The Liberal Party of Canada, heading into an election, at the last minute they always stand up and they say: We know there’s people out there that want to vote NDP and God love you. But if you vote for them you’re throwing your vote away.
It’s interesting to me that the Arab Spring started in Tunisia, and in the marches, people were singing ‘Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights.’
It’s an amazing cause, Stand Up to Cancer.
I remember the Lord speaking into my heart and saying, ‘Jeremy, I want you to stand up and worship me.’
At the end of the day, my responsibility is to provide facts and truth and represent and stand up for justice.
If I want to make political decisions, I should stand for election. If I want to do something in the legal field, that’s different; that is my – they are my qualifications, but you know, the politicians are the ones who stand up there and are answerable to the people.
Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok?
Why don’t women have respect for themselves nowadays? What happen to the woman who learned her grandmama’s recipes and made her man sweet potato pie? I tell you, they don’t make ’em like they used to. Will my real women stand up, please?
I am the people, I’m not the pig. You got to make a distinction. And the people are going to have to attack the pigs. The people are going to have to stand up against the pigs. That’s what the Panthers is doing, that’s what the Panthers are doing all over the world.
The Senate Majority Leader has the unilateral ability to stand up and say, ‘If you defy Congress, if you defy the Constitution, if you defy the American people, none of your nominees will be confirmed.’
I see something different in Hillary Clinton. She wants a trade prosecutor. She’s going after currency. She’s going stand up strong on keeping China designated as a non-market economy.
I think it’s important, if you are an artist, to use your music to stand up for what you believe in.
I knew Rita Hayworth only enough to know that she was just a tender, sensitive, beautiful human being. A lovely person. Very gentle. She would never stand up for her rights.
There are things you stand up for because it’s right.
Having two kids, I don’t get out to see stand up much anymore.
You just have to be able to stand up for yourself. And that’s OK.
Before I was a prosecutor, I was a defense attorney. I took a cut in pay because I wanted to stand up for the victims.
It’s really important to stand up for yourself and not always agree with what people say if indeed you don’t feel that that’s true.
You and I must demonstrate love to our gay neighbors, of course, remembering that we are ultimately engaged in spiritual warfare. But we should boldly stand up when our rights as citizens and the demands of our conscience are threatened.
We have no one to stand up for the fighters’ rights. If something bad were to happen, no one backs him, and it’s just him alone, and everything gets washed out. We need people to stand up and fight for it.
And of course I didn’t make any money from stand up for years, so I had temp jobs. That was the way I made money.
For riding a snowmobile, you need to have your knee bent. It needs to absorb the impact of riding over bumps, to allow yourself to stand up or sit down, balance side to side.
A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.
Dad had a huge influence on me. I really look up to him for his brave acts. He was an outspoken man. For him, if it was the right thing, he would stand up for the smallest guy around him.
My dad was a proper old English gentleman, even though he was from the Caribbean. He used to stand up and salute during the Queen’s Christmas speech.
I am crushing so hard on Amy Schumer. Women like her who have chosen to stand up for themselves and face the bullies are being so embraced.
I will stand up for all of those who feel they can’t stand up for themselves.
We must stand up for the principle of parliamentary democracy and not allow the government’s failure in the Brexit process to be a licence for the U.K. to crash out of the E.U. without an agreement.
If you’re ordering chain, you’re a person with poor taste. Everyone lives near a pizza place that’s better than a chain. They can’t stand up to a local pizzeria.
What’s right and good doesn’t come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it – as if the cause depends on you, because it does.
The Gospel can stand up to scrutiny.
I have personally seen Ted Cruz stand up and fight on the issues that matter the most to conservatives, even when it wasn’t popular in Congress.
With Stand Up To Cancer, every penny goes to Cancer Research UK. You are playing with people’s lives. I knew I needed to get as much money as possible.
For a wrestler, I think it is much better to fight in the ring than in the cage. The cage has more advantage for the stand up fighter.
The content and thematic materials of dance is, of itself, like boxing. You play tennis and baseball. But boxing is not a sport you play: you stand up and do it.
I have always been of the opinion that when those in power are promoting actions and ideals that risk harming or impeding us, people should stand up to this.
I will stand up on issues as they arise, making sure that the voices of Georgians are always being heard.
We need to stand up to Donald Trump and the Republicans, but we also need to stand up against our own party establishment when it’s on the wrong side of an issue.
When you hear someone criticize a policy on the other side, that’s fine. But when you start hearing motive-mongering and demonization, stand up to it just as you would if it were something that was racist or sexist. If we avoid the demonization, disagreements can be positive.
For me, I know I am a trans activist and I try my best to stand up when the time is right, but at the same time, I don’t always want to be considered transgender around my friends and people at my daughter’s school. I just want to be considered a woman.
The strongest thing that any human being has going is their own integrity and their own heart. As soon as you start veering away from that, the solidity that you need in order to be able to stand up for what you believe in and deliver what’s really inside, it’s just not going to be there.
I think people are always going to say things about you or disapprove of your relationships or your ideals or your beliefs or something, but I think you have to stand up and stay strong in who you are and not let it affect you.
Now is the moment when we can stand up and say, ‘I’m an American. I make my destiny. And we deserve better! My children deserve better! My family deserves better. My country deserves better!’ So here we stand. Americans have a choice.
Johnny Rotten. He’s a big fan of mine. I used to see him out in the audience in England and he’d stand up and holler. He’s funny. Smart too, and a nice guy. Don’t think he’s a jerk because he isn’t.
