Though I may not be here with you, I urge you to answer the highest calling of your heart and stand up for what you truly believe. – John Lewis Essay written shortly before civil rights leader’s death and read at his funeral.
Where is our compassionate leader who’s going to step up to our country who’s down on its knees, and extend a hand and say, ‘You stand up, stand up with me because I got you. I hear you, I’m listening to you. And you have my word that I’m going to do everything in my power, until my dying day, my last breath, to do everything I can to create the change that is needed, to normalize equality because Black Lives Matter.’ – Dwayne Johnson
George Floyd’s story has been the story of Black folks. We could never be who we wanted and dreamed to be is you kept your knee on our neck. It’s time for us to stand up in George’s name and say, ‘Get your knee off our necks!’ – Al Sharpton
Every stand-up I’ve done, every series I have done, there have been ten different people complaining. Well, thousands of people. Everyone thinks their complaint is the worst thing. – Ricky Gervais
Is the Real Slim Shady about to stand up? – Sacha Baron Cohen Bruno. Shouted this to Eminem as rapper left 2009 MTV Movie Awards. This was after prank in which Bruno was lowered onto Eminem, landing in Eminem’s lap with his rear end in rapper’s face.
Don’t forget, I’ve been fired by studios; I’m not the studio’s guy. I’m a guy who can work with studios, but if you ask any studio, I stand up to these people. – Glen Mazzara
Let’s continue to stand up for those who are vulnerable to being left out or marginalized. – Hillary Clinton
I was taught to be demure, so it was harder for me to learn how to stand up for myself and go, ‘What do I want? What are my desires?’ – Heather Graham
The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public. – George Jessel
If you can say the lyrics almost like a poem and they stand up, that’s a great thing. Some songs have great lyrics and I don’t like the melodies, and vice versa. – Harry Connick, Jr.
There’s so many ways to do stand up, and I think for awhile, people weren’t really maximizing the freedom of it. – Greg Fitzsimmons
I want people who will stand up to me. People who are not afraid to say exactly what’s on their minds, even though that’s probably not what I want to hear. That’s what I want. – Henry Kravis
As a stand up, and often in acting, there is no place for the most intense feelings. Rage, genuine sorrow, naked hope… These things don’t fit on a comedy stage and if you act you’ll get to express them once in a while. Music is a place for the intensely personal. – Hal Sparks
Some people’s developmental path has not equipped them to stand up and let go of something. – Henry Cloud
Remember that in the early days of the feminist movement, they refused to have a leader; different women would just stand up and speak. The early feminists were very careful to not put what was spontaneously arising back in the old bottle. – James Hillman
We need someone who will stand up and speak up and speak out for the people who need help, for people who are being discriminated against. And it doesn’t matter whether they are black or white, Latino, Asian or Native American, whether they are straight or gay, Muslim, Christian, or Jews. – John Lewis
For me, rockabilly is very, very exciting music. It’s electric and kind of wild, you know? It’s ‘make your hairs stand up on the back of your neck’ kind of music. – Imelda May
An absolutely necessary part of a writer’s equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself. – Irwin Shaw
We’ve got to stand up for what we believe in as a labour movement. And that means the party’s membership needs to be even bigger so it becomes a genuinely mass organisation. – Jeremy Corbyn
In concertos, I stand up, and I conduct with the bow when I’m not playing. During symphonies, I sit, but sometimes I stop playing to conduct. Being seated in a section allows me to feel more like we’re playing chamber music, which is how I like to approach it. – Joshua Bell
Relatively mild gusts of wind blow some trees down. Graceful palm trees, for example, are lovely to look at but will not stand up in a heavy wind because they are not well anchored. – Joseph B. Wirthlin
She gets away with it. Everybody co-signs her bad behavior. It’s like we all are co-dependent on Lindsay Lohan. When are we going to stand up to her? – Jane Velez-Mitchell
As the 2016 presidential race kicks off, candidates on both sides of the aisle are promising to stand up for the middle class. Voters deserve to know that anyone who champions Obamacare cannot honestly say she or he is also a champion of middle-class Americans. – John Barrasso
My challenge to members on both sides of the aisle is to stand up and have the integrity to say that we have a dead U.S. agent; we have a Department of Justice that lied to Congress. – Jason Chaffetz
I try to be as honest and open as I am with everything that I do because it’s just, um, It helps me, you know, like whether it’s stand up or singing or act. I just try to stay true. – Jamie Foxx
Under a death penalty statute that is going to stand up to constitutional muster, you look at the aggravating circumstances and the mitigating circumstances. – Janet Reno
When you get to the extremes there is, sometimes, just the need where you have to stand up. – Jennifer Granholm
