Tony Evers Quotes

We need leaders who will stand up for the little guy and listen once again.

I am the voice of my people.

We need someone who is going to stand up, speak up, and speak out for the people who need help, for the people who have been discriminated against.

The folks in this counrty need somebody that will stand up for them.

We are the party that hears the stories of people, the struggles.

I consider myself as a free spokesman for the people.

I abide where there is a fight against wrong.

My self-imposed mandate is to be the voice for the voiceless.

Successful organizing is based on the recognition that people get organized because they, too, have a vision.

We must stand up and do everything we can for the people who do not have a voice.

Give me your support, and I'll fight for you... I'll fight for you because I am you.

It's my job, with the position of power that I'm in and being able to be on television, I'm supposed to stand up for the people who can't stand up for themselves.

I hope that a lot of the men and women who feel forgotten in this country really see that they have in me a champion.

World leaders and, particularly, Muslim religious leaders need to stand up and protect the oppressed.

I'm always wanting and willing to be a voice for my people, a voice for the injustice.

I will be O.K. without football. I want to fight for the people who won't be O.K.

The responsibility of a chief is to show solidarity with his people and to be strong with his people.

You're a coward if you don't stand up. Not for you, but for women. Say something.

Wherever you can look - wherever there's a fight, so hungry people can eat, I'll be there.

Wherever they’s a fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there. Wherever they’s a cop beatin’ up a guy, I’ll be there. If Casy knowed, why, I’ll be in the way guys yell when they’re mad an’—I’ll be in the way kids laugh when they’re hungry n’ they know supper’s ready. An’ when our folks eat the stuff they raise an’ live in the houses they build—why, I’ll be there.

The fire in the bellies of the good people who work for a more fair and just world for all of us - that spark never fails to inspire me and warm my heart.

You can only watch injustice go on for so long until you're compelled to say something. To speak out against it.

I want to be a champion for the people I have fought for all my life - regular people.

At the moment I am a little bit politician, yes. I think that could be my next step. It is not because I want power, it is because of what I think I could do for the people.

I'm trying to appeal to the disenfranchised everybody, not just specifically gay.