David Brock Quotes

It is not only all right but necessary to stand up to George Bush.

Somebody needs to stand up [to Donald Trump] and say "This is not our party. This is not OK. This is not normal."

Fighting injustice keeps you young.

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

Some laws are wrong, and we have an obligation to speak out against those laws wherever they are.

If you want to be a real human being - a real woman, a real man - you cannot tolerate things which put you to indignation, to outrage. You must stand up. I always say to people, 'Look around; look at what makes you unhappy, what makes you furious, and then engage yourself in some action.'

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.

There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop.

Speaking truth to power is never going to be easy.

I don't shy away from standing up against the president or other people who I think are taking us in the wrong direction.

I'm not going to back down one bit in attacking Trump.

Opposition is different from terrorism. Opposition is a political movement.

I do believe that if millions of people do stand up and fight back, we can stop Donald Trump from doing some really awful things.

I love revolutionaries who have the courage to stand up against the status quo. They're always misunderstood, but they're the ones who are standing up for human rights.

If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.

If Republicans are going in the wrong direction, I am still willing to stand up against them.

You must still stand up and say no when society is facing a backslide or a moment of danger.

Dissidents can't be dissidents forever; we are dissidents because we don't want to be dissidents.

I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service.

If in my fight I can encourage even some people to understand and to abandon policies they now so blindly follow, I shall not regret any punishment I may incur.

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

If this be treason, make the most of it!

How many of you are willing to go to jail for freedom?

…I have spent many years of my life in opposition and I rather like the role.

The legal grounds are not near as important as the moral and political grounds, and I can use the courts till you can step on my beard.