Powell Clayton Quotes

Stand up for what you know is right.

There are things you stand up for because it's right.

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

I have huge respect for whistle-blowers, people who stand up against their bosses and losing their careers, just for truth and justice.

I don't pick up fights casually. I fight for what is right.

We have to stand for the truth.

The righteous man takes his life in his hand whenever he utters the truth.

Stand up for Truth regardless of who steps on it.

The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

The smallest number, with God and truth on their side, are weightier than thousands.

There is little more powerful than when truth joins action.

What is character? It is that quality of man which is going to make a man, in an hour of strain, do the just and, if possible, the generous thing.

Heroes have a rough time because they stand up when they ought not to, they speak when they ought not to; they always have to go that extra mile.

What's special about Superman is that he will always make the right choice.

It could achieve a lot if everyone in Burma could stop saying something is good if it is not good, or say something is just if it is not just.

A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.

If you know that something is true and just, and you give up, that's when you fail.

We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.

The greatest want of the world is the want of men - men who will not be bought or sold; men who in their inmost souls are true and honest; men who do not fear to call sin by its right name; men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole; men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall.

I must remind you, Senators, that extreme patriotism in the defense of freedom is no crime and let me respectfully remind you that pusillanimity in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

The just man and firm of purpose—not the heat of fellow citizens clamoring for what is wrong, not presence of threatening tyrant can shake—in his rocklike soul.

If it is decreed that I should go down because of this speech, then let me go down linked to the truth—let me die in the advocacy of what is just and right.

Fighting for what is right is not always popular but is always necessary.

Today we need a special kind of courage. Not the kind needed in battle, but a kind which makes us stand up for everything that we know is right, everything that is true and honest. We need the kind of courage that can withstand the subtle corruption of the cynics, so that we can show the world that we are not afraid of the future.

Speaking up for the truth isn't always easy. It takes courage, but it's necessary.