Lois Frankel Quotes

When I see something unjust, I have to intervene - it's hard for me to watch the underdog suffer.

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

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.

I've always had a 'stand up for the people' type of personality.

The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.

I've personally demanded that tyrants let their people go. I've tried to feed the hungry, clothe the poor, protect the elderly and infirm, and defend the needy from the aggressively greedy. I've led a blessed life. What a kick for a kid from the projects.

A little anger is a good thing if it isn't on your own behalf, if it's for others deserving of your anger, your empathy.

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

I will be satisfied if my epitaph shall be written thus: "Here lies one who never rose to any eminence, who only courted the low ambition to have it said that he striven to ameliorate the condition of the poor, the lowly, the downtrodden of every race and language and color.

You can only appreciate freedom when you find yourself in a position to fight for someone else's freedom and not worry about your own.

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

I have in my bones, and in my blood, the knowledge that you have to help the people who are persecuted.

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

I tend to side with people who are considered the underdog. I have empathy.

There are people who can look out for other human beings; there are people who can speak up when something is not right and say, 'This is wrong, and something should be done.'

I've always taken pride in relating to the underdog or little guy or gal.

My faith motivates me to really try to work on behalf of and advocate for those who are least able to advocate for themselves.

While I am furious about injustice, I do what I do, fighting against it, out of a place of love.

We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for the victims of our nation and for those it calls enemy, for no document from human hands can make these humans any less our brothers and sisters.

If we don't stand up for others, who will be left to stand up for us?

A true man does not only stand up for himself, he stands up for those that do not have the ability to.

It is highly significant and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in such identification through one's own sensitivity with suffering of one's fellow human beings." (p. 16-17)

Among our tasks as witnesses to the love of Christ is that of giving a voice to the cry of the poor.

We believe in shouting for those who can only whisper, in defending those who cannot defend themselves.

I don't think there's anything immature about fighting for the underdog and fighting for people who don't have a voice. I have an intense desire to protect people who can't protect themselves.