Bill Moyers Quotes

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

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

Our duty is to stand up for those who do the right thing.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

I abide where there is a fight against wrong.

Stand up for what you know is right.

Citizens with a conscience are not going to ignore wrong-doing simply because they'll be destroyed for it: the conscience forbids it.

You have to stand up for some things in this world.

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

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Tell me what is right and I will fight for it.

It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most enormous wrong; he may still properly have other concerns to engage him; but it is his duty, at least, to wash his hands of it, and, if he gives it no thought longer, not to give it practically his support.

Decent people can stand against mountains of power and move those mountains for the betterment of their children.

The world is full of men who think and teach what is right. But as soon as they are called upon to act, they are assailed by doubts and fears.

If we believe a thing to be bad, and if we have a right to prevent it, it is our duty to prevent it and to damn the consequences.

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

Know what's important and what isn't. Have the wisdom to know the right thing to do, the integrity to do it, the character to stand up to those who don't, and the courage to stop those who won't.

If you strongly believe something is wrong, you must speak up and stand by what you say.

I try not to cancel people. But at some point, we got to stand up and say, hey, right is right, wrong is wrong.

You cannot be quiet about things that you know.

I have to do what's right.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

It is not easy to stand up against your constituents or your friends or colleagues or your community and take a tough stand for something you believe is right. Because you always want to keep working and live to fight another battle and it might cost you your career.

Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Leadership is about doing what you know is right - even when a growing din of voices around you is trying to convince you to accept what you know to be wrong.