The more you expose yourself by coming out with specific positions, the more you alienate various groups.
If you really think you're right, you should tell it.
Aren't we supposed to be standing for something instead of falling for everything?
I'm not one to stand by when something is happening.
I'm not confrontational, but if someone challenges, I'm not going to back down.
I guess taking a stand is valid for a commentator. But that's not what I am.
I can stand up for what I believe in. I don't take the word 'rebel' in a negative connotation.
I don't fight for much, but when I fight for something, it's usually because I think I'm going to be right.
When you get to the extremes there is, sometimes, just the need where you have to stand up.
No one is obliged to take a position on the urgent issues of the day, but there are times when our impoverished public sphere could do with some occasional assertions of literary and moral authority.
One person's grandstanding may be another person's way of getting the message across.
