Taking a Stand Quotes

I'm not afraid to use my platform. I don't want to preach to people; I just want to put my opinions across about things I feel strongly about.

One man with courage makes a majority.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not tired physically... No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.

A minority may be right. The majority is always wrong.

The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. "One word of truth outweighs the world.

Action is eloquence

Evil will never be countered while good men do nothing.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right — for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be "damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

There are always more people to prove wrong.

To be silent is to be complicit.

When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.

To plead for the Oppress'd and to defend the Weak seem'd to me a generous undertaking; for tho' it may be secure, 'tis not always Honourable to run over to the strongest party.

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

Stand with anybody that stands right. Stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.

Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.

Your silence will not protect you.

You can't always see both sides of the story. Eventually, you have to pick a side and stick with it. No more equivocating. You have to commit.

On one hand, I am very pessimistic, but on the other hand, if I didn't believe that speaking up would do something, I wouldn't have spoken.

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

If you go to your death rather than do everything you might to prevent what is happening, you are merely committing suicide and trying to make yourself feel better about it. That is the act of a coward. It is beneath contempt.

When I was young, I read the Bible, and I already knew what it meant to be the good guy - and look what happened to Jesus. So, I already understood that you get ridiculed for telling the truth, and I've always been aware of that. But, I'm a guy with confidence, and I'm not afraid.

The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.

Political courage reads well in editorials, but it doesn't translate into political reality.