Be skeptical, question authority, be a rebel. Do not conform and don’t be ordinary. Remember, all human progress is the result of far-sighted people challenging orthodoxy, tradition and rich, powerful, vested interests.
And this is what was fascinating to me about 'The Help'; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.
People say sometimes, gosh, that was brave of you to write such-and-such last week. 'Brave?' What do they mean 'brave?' It's right! How could you not write it?
In the face of brutality I was prudent. Before injustice I held my peace. I sacrificed the things in hand for the good of the hypothetical whole. I believed in the tongue instead of the fist. As an armor against oppression I taught patience and faith in the human soul. I know now how wrong I was. I have been a traitor to myself and to my people. All that is rot.
I am not ready to give up this country without a fight.
I stand for what's right. That's the bottom line. I call it like I see it.
My best moment? I have a lot of good moments but the one I prefer is when I kicked the hooligan.
Citizens with a conscience are not going to ignore wrong-doing simply because they'll be destroyed for it: the conscience forbids it.
I think the immediate thing is we stand up to protect those people who are in trouble.
In self-defense and in defense of the innocent, cowardice is the only sin.
You have to stand up for what's right in life. Unless you do that... you're nothing.
There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.
I can be a nice person, but if someone is messing with someone I care about, the tougher side comes out a little more.
Look, I'm happy to defend my dad. I don't think he needs any defensiveness.
Sometimes standing up for things that are right makes things tougher.
Making a judgment, taking a stand and then acting against an injustice or acting to support excellence is the stuff of the everyman hero. If you are an aspiring artist and you wish to avoid “judgments,” you'll find that you have nothing to say.
My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.
When a cause comes along and you know in your bones that it is just, yet refuse to defend it--at that moment you begin to die. And I have never seen so many corpses walking around talking about justice.
It is never wrong to fight for what is right, never!
Do you know why this world is as bad as it is?... It is because people think only about their own business, and won't trouble themselves to stand up for the oppressed, nor bring the wrong-doers to light... My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.
They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak; They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing, and abuse, Rather than in silence shrink From the truth they needs must think; They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.
My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.
Our obligation is to refuse to let bad win, to refuse to let evil hold the field.
The thing that we need in the world today, is a group of men and women who will stand up for right and be opposed to wrong, wherever it is. A group of people who have come to see that some things are wrong, whether they’re never caught up with. Some things are right, whether nobody sees you doing them or not.
A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.
