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Women standing up for each other is critically important. -- Hillary Clinton
Isn't that the ultimate homeland security, standing up and defending marriage? -- Rick Santorum
Standing up to bullies is the hallmark of a civilized society. -- Robert Reich
I'm still standing up there tall and strong every night that I perform. -- Patti LaBelle
Frederick Douglass had to teach himself how to read before standing up to defeat slavery. -- Juan Williams
Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up. -- Ernest Hemingway
People don't know what it's like standing up there onstage, when you have a wall of people smiling at you. -- Dave Chappelle
Regarding the Panama Canal Treaty negotiations, they will find us standing up or dead, but never on our knees; NEVER! -- Omar Torrijos Herrera
The most enduring legacy of President Barack Obama is going to be a new generation of leaders standing up for liberty. -- Ted Cruz
We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves. -- Marilyn Manson
Passion and standing up for things can help create a sense of unity. But you still have to act a certain way. -- Arthur Blank
I'm not violent, I don't believe in killing people, but standing up for yourself, speaking out against injustice, is another form of vengeance. -- Eva Gabrielsson
To me, punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying 'This is who I am'. -- Joey Ramone
A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes blazing and sputtering. -- William S. Burroughs
I have always believed in standing up for what I believe in and I believe that everyone deserves the right to love whoever they love no matter who they are. -- Josh Hutcherson
I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place. -- Xun Zi
But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?' -- Gertrude Stein
Millions of Americans are standing up and saying, 'We want our country back!' Republicans, Democrats, Independents, will not go down the path of Greece, we will not go quietly into the night. -- Ted Cruz
So now is the time, more than ever, for those who truly value all the principles of democracy, especially including dissent, to be the most forceful in speaking up, standing up and speaking out. -- Jim Hightower
I won't stop fighting to give Nevadans access to affordable health care just because my husband is a doctor, just like I won't stop standing up for veterans because my father served in World War II. -- Shelley Berkley
One individual can begin a movement that turns the tide of history. Martin Luther King in the civil rights movement, Mohandas Ganhi in India, Nelson Mandela in South Africa are examples of people standing up with courage and non-violence to bring about needed changes. -- Jack Canfield
It's good to go out and entertain these people, and you've got them on the edge of their seat, they're standing up. Then you know that you've done your job, you've entertained them. My way of entertaining them is going out and wrestling. Everyone's got their different ways. -- Owen Hart
Anyone who thinks they stand apart from society and defies all which govern its existence has less in common with the lone wolf patriot standing up to dystopic forces of oppression - a myth - and more in common with the disease known as cancer - a harsh reality. -- Steven Weber
I think of my films as not necessarily political but more moral. Between my father, my stepfather, and my mother - they all felt pretty passionately about the importance of standing up and doing the right thing, and none of them were suck-ups. What motivates me is usually abuse of power. -- Alex Gibney
I went to law school. And I became a prosecutor. I took on a specialty that very few choose to pursue. I prosecuted child abuse and child homicide cases. Cases that were truly gut-wrenching. But standing up for those kids, being their voice for justice was the honor of a lifetime. -- Susana Martinez
President Obama is also standing up for women in North Carolina and across our country. He has helped women fight for equal pay for equal work; he has fought to guarantee that women have access to quality, affordable health care, including making sure that insurance plans cover birth control with no out-of-pocket cost. -- Bev Perdue
Standing up and teaching is grueling, but grueling fun. -- Charles E. Young
Citizenship means standing up for everyone's right to vote.*** -- Barack Obama
Standing up for America, investing in America, will pay off. -- Hillary Clinton
Fly-fishing is the most fun you can have standing up. -- Arnold Gingrich
All over this world people are standing up for freedom. -- Malcolm X
Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly. -- Rosalind Russell
I don't like doing stand-up, because I don't like standing up. -- Jo Brand
Unlike Mitt Romney, President Obama is standing up for Planned Parenthood. -- Bev Perdue
Never shoot up in the air when you're standing under it. -- Woody Allen
If you live, live free or die like the trees, standing up. -- Mahmoud Darwish
I'm a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up. -- Bram Stoker
I would rather die standing up to live life on my knees. -- Che Guevara
Charlie Sheen is to stand-up what Larry Flynt is to standing up. -- Jeff Ross
Standing up to your government can mean standing up for your country. -- Bill Moyers
I can sleep anywhere. I can fall asleep standing up, literally anywhere. -- Jenna Ushkowitz
Stand up for what you believe in even if you are standing alone -- Sophie Scholl
It's a better view if you're standing up than if you're laying down. -- Lou Holtz
I prefer to leave standing up, like a well-mannered guest at a party. -- Leontyne Price
Larry Lintz steals second standing up. He slid, but he didn't have to. -- Jerry Coleman
You guys are just standing up because I fell, and it's so embarrassing. -- Jennifer Lawrence
People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up. -- Ogden Nash
She says you're not awake until you're actually out of bed and standing up. -- Richelle Mead
You know you've reached middle age when your weightlifting consists merely of standing up. -- Bob Hope
I think my worst nightmare is standing up in front of a group of people. -- Emma Caulfield
When someone throws up while watching one of your movies, it's like a standing ovation. -- Eli Roth
I will never apologize for standing up for my fellow Teamsters and all American workers. -- James P. Hoffa
In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on. -- Elie Wiesel
Democrats - always standing up for what they later realize they should have believed in. -- Jon Stewart
Peace is not weak. Standing up to a tank is harder than dropping a suicide bomb -- Matthieu Ricard
Baptists never make love standing up. They're afraid someone might see them and think they're dancing. -- Lewis Grizzard
I'm liking the idea more and more of just standing up with a microphone and talking. -- Madonna Ciccone
We're Americans. We shape our own future. Let's start by standing up for President Barack Obama. -- Deval Patrick
The best part about getting knocked down is standing back up knowing what you didn't before. -- Lights
I have spent the better part of my adult life standing up and fighting for working families. -- Bernie Sanders
The only way to succeed in life is to never give up. Oftentimes, it requires standing alone. -- Ellen J. Barrier
I've been shot down so many times I get altitude sickness just from standing up for myself. -- Shane Koyczan
Sometimes just getting up in the morning and standing at the gate can bring the gate down. -- Joan Bauer
I do believe in standing up for what you believe in and your family and your friends. -- Kid Rock
Standing up for what's right is a huge burden to bear. It's normal to have some doubt. -- Daisy Whitney
I'm standing on a field full of landmines doing the moonwalk hoping i blow up in time -- Kendrick Lamar
My point is this: the more you have to lose, the braver you are for standing up. -- Craig Silvey
When you stand up for yourself, you are standing up for everyone who will follow your positive example! -- Doreen Virtue
Sometimes standing up for what you believe means standing down and allowing the universe to do its work. -- Gregor Collins
These people haven't seen the last of my face. If I go down, I'm going down standing up. -- Chuck Person
My audience is often hands-up, standing and cheering and on tables and all of that kind of things. -- Gloria Gaynor
Don?t back down just to keep the peace. Standing up for your beliefs builds self-confidence and self-esteem. -- Oprah Winfrey
But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith. -- Polly Toynbee
I'm a lurker and a creep. Women don't like me because I sleep standing up, like a horse. -- Eric Andre
I look forward to standing up and holding George Bush accountable for pushing seniors off of Medicare into HMOs. -- John F. Kerry
Those that perished in Hitler's gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves. -- Golda Meir
Almost every great achievement began with someone finally getting ticked off, saying, 'Enough!' and standing up to fight. -- Darren Hardy
Lighting that torch in Atlanta didn't make me nervous. Standing up to the government - that made me nervous -- Muhammad Ali
Life is like riding a bicycle. You get nowhere standing up, so get up on that seat and go! -- Lynne Ewing
It is by standing up for the rights of girls and women that we truly measure up as men. -- Desmond Tutu
I'm standing up thinking. Anybody who wants to listen is welcome. If not, I'm happy to see them go. -- David Antin
Planned Parenthood and Human Rights Campaign are standing up and fighting the important fights that have to be fought. -- Bernie Sanders
I've always admired President Chavez for standing up to imperialism and the meddling of the American government in South America. -- Cindy Sheehan
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Challenge me, that'd be to my advantage I'm outstanding, like standing outside up in the twister, and walking out undamaged -- Lil Wayne
I'm standing up for the U.S. But it's hard when Russians don't have any respect for the current leadership. -- Michael T. Flynn
Standing up for yourself doesn't always involve verbal confrontation. Sometimes it's about not wasting energy on people who are negative. -- Sherry Argov
When people are standing up for our present rotten system, they are being worse than Communists, it seems to me. -- Dorothy Day
A woman should always be more concerned with standing up for what is right than making sure everyone 'likes' her. -- Laura Schlessinger
Let us help build the kingdom of God by standing up boldly and being defenders of marriage, parenthood, and the home. -- Bonnie L. Oscarson
Above all, being a Democrat means having compassion for others. ... It means standing up for people who have been kept down ... -- George McGovern
Reelection ought not to be the primary preoccupation of any politician. It ought to be standing up for truth and justice. -- Cornel West
Concert' doesn't mean standing up like a target in front of thousands of strangers. It means coming together. It means harmony. -- Gayle Forman
I've seen a big shift, especially in my classroom, with women standing up and demanding respect. That's in every woman, whether 16, 26, 56. -- P. C. Cast
If it weren't for people like the people in Berkeley, standing up for what they believe, we'd be living under Hitler. -- Medea Benjamin
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Most of the day I work standing up, as I once read somewhere that it's the best position for the back. -- Anthony Browne
But most of my songs were about believing in yourself, standing up for yourself and fighting for what you believe in. -- Dee Snider
I can think of a lot of things to do," he said, "and none of them involve standing up. - Al -- Kim Harrison
I'm officially middle-aged. I don't need drugs anymore, thank God. I can get the same effect just by standing up real fast. -- Jonathan Katz
It's fun to be liked, but when standing up for what you believe in, it's also very fun not to be liked. -- Andrew Breitbart
Freedom is dangerous. Possibly crawling on all fours might be safer than standing upright, but we like the view better up there. -- Isabel Paterson
There's a difference between standing up and telling people what you're planning to do and standing up and going and accomplishing something. -- Paul Stanley
I don't want it to appear that I'm standing up and saying I'm the expected one. That's a dangerous, ego-driven kind of thing. -- Kathleen McGowan
I think my main concern is because I worry about demagoguery. It`s real. You see the people standing up there and applauding. -- Bernie Sanders
I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer. We were all alone out there at this buoy, tied up. -- Barney Ross
Standing on the court and holding up that trophy - it's so great you want to keep doing it over and over again. -- Tim Duncan
I urge everyone - men, boys, women and girls - to join me in standing up for girls' rights with Plan U.K. -- Lena Headey
To prevent the workers from going to their work by standing in front of them is pure violence and must be given up. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Art respects the masses, by standing up to them for what they could be, rather than conforming to them in their degraded state. -- Theodor Adorno
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Standing up for what you believe in comes at a price but backing down exacts a toll that your soul never stops paying -- Lee Goldberg
Local councils are hostile to large developers and think that, by doing this, they are standing up for the community. But they're wrong. -- Harry Triguboff
I'm alive and I'm going to keep standing up for what I believe in. Once you get to that point, boy you are dangerous. -- Andrew Breitbart
In the time when my mother began standing up against prejudice and racism, the vast majority of white Americans rarely thought about civil rights. -- Ezekiel Emanuel
If I gave McClellan all the men he asked for, they could not find room to lie down; they'd have to sleep standing up. -- Abraham Lincoln
In my dreams you are standing right beside me, two hearts finally colliding, then i wake up and realise, realise, this is real life -- Demi Lovato
The caricature of Islam as a violent and intolerant religion is horrendously incomplete. Remember that those standing up to Muslim fanatics are mostly Muslims. -- Nicholas Kristof
I'm a child of the '60s, so I love the fact that we are returning to a time when artists are standing up. -- Kenneth Ehrlich
Mud and water and the stumps of trees. In every direction that was all there was. Bodies fell, but the trees died standing up. -- Josh Ritter

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