Quotes tagged ‘Standing Up’

“This is about you not living a lie. Not hiding. This is about you standing up and being who you are. That's honorable. That's brave. That's heroic. And that's who you are, Sully. You're a hero. You fought a war and you were braver than I can ever imagine being. This is just another war. For every ga…”

— Tom Verica, Jenna Bans, Olivia Pope, Kerry Washington, imdb.com

“For a persecuted minority, existing is protest. A flag is protest. A smile is protest. Love is protest. Showing up says, "I am not afraid.”

— Shakira Sison, twitter.com

“We can whimper. We can whine. Or we can fight back! We come here to stand shoulder to shoulder to make clear: We are here! We will not be silent! We will not play dead! We will fight for what we believe in!”

— Elizabeth Warren, time.com

“Stand for the weak, for the poor, for the lonely, for the fearful, for the ignorant, and for the silent. We must not stand for the powerful only, or for the rich only, or for the arrogant only. Justice does not demand that.”

— Wangari Maathai, amazon.com

“The most revolutionary thing one can do is always to proclaim loudly what is happening.”

— Rosa Luxemburg, amazon.com

“This is not a story of another drunk college hook­up with poor decision making. Assault is not an accident.”

— Anonymous, buzzfeed.com

“To girls everywhere, I am with you. On nights when you feel alone, I am with you. When people doubt you or dismiss you, I am with you. I fought everyday for you. So never stop fighting, I believe you. As the author Anne Lamott once wrote, “Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for…”

— Anonymous, buzzfeed.com

“It is deeply offensive that he would try and dilute rape with a suggestion of 'promiscuity'. By definition rape is not the absence of promiscuity, rape is the absence of consent, and it perturbs me deeply that he can’t even see that distinction.”

— Anonymous, buzzfeed.com

“Let me rephrase for you, I want to show people that one night of drinking can ruin two lives. You and me. You are the cause, I am the effect. You have dragged me through this hell with you, dipped me back into that night again and again. You knocked down both our towers, I collapsed at the same time…”

— Anonymous, buzzfeed.com

“Dear Friends, on the 9th of October 2012, the Taliban shot me on the left side of my forehead. They shot my friends too. They thought that the bullets would silence us. But they failed. And then, out of that silence came, thousands of voices. The terrorists thought that they would change our aims an…”

— Malala Yousafzai, un.org

“I raise up my voice—not so I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard...we cannot succeed when half of us are held back.”

— Malala Yousafzai, un.org