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There was a day that he would have stood up for that family, would have stood up for himself.
"When I stood up for my mother, I stood up for everybody that is scared to speak up," he said.
And good for him — he stood up for himself.
"I believe that I stood up for myself," she said.
Others are saying he should have stood up for CNN.
Meghan Markle is thanking those who stood up for her.
And God bless the man who stood up for justice.
I stood up for myself like any other American would.
"Glad you stood up for your moral convictions," another wrote.
She stood up for Jenner specifically, praising her work ethic.
" One user stood up for Kinney, writing, "Leave him alone.
Twitter has even stood up for users in civil cases.
So I've stood up for equal rights and marriage equality.
Stand up for kids who don't get stood up for.
"She stood up for everybody," Cai says of her mother.
She stood up for Louisiana, and meanwhile: where were you?
Pete King (R) also stood up for unaccountable homicidal cops.
He could have stood up for American interests and values.
Both have stood up for their own national tech champions.
"Ken has stood up for true American values," he said.
That was the one time she stood up for herself.
" While Taylor was celebrated for her great beauty, with that in mind, Wilding says, "I would love for her to be remembered as one who stood up for herself, and stood up for others.
It's bloody mental and heartbreaking to hear about women who have stood up for themselves or stood up for something else and they just get called horrible things on the internet—that's there forever.
" Pence also lauded McCain in an interview with KNXV in Arizona, saying he has "provided the kind of leadership throughout his career that has stood up for our military, stood up for a strong America.
And they stood up for the LGBTQ community in the '80s.
Clinton's tweet isn't the first time she's stood up for Barron.
I've stood up for Ashley when people tried discrediting her win.
I have always stood up for what I believe is right.
"I should have stood up for them,"Vega told the Post.
But I stood up for myself at that school board meeting.
She stood up for what was right, regardless of popular opinion.
But Lady Gaga stood up for our faith and fought back.
This was not the first time Cook stood up for DACA.
They stood up for human rights and worked hard for that.
At the time, none of Erskine's friends stood up for her.
Voters recall how he has long stood up for union workers.
He could have stood up for the free flow of information.
No surprise that it stood up for what was right, was just.
This isn't the first time Stewart stood up for her political beliefs.
There was some pride shown as players stood up for each other.
Padres catcher A.J. Ellis stood up for Perdomo by going after Arenado.
Donors have also stood up for Omar by donating to her campaign.
But there were some who stood up for the musician as well.
He stood up for abortion rights and protected affirmative action at universities.
You didn't have to do that, and you stood up for me.
Then he tried to fight a passenger who stood up for her.
Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Sure enough, some Fox News commentators stood up for Brokaw on Monday.
"I like how she stood up for herself a lot," she said.
"They really stood up for the values of the Constitution," he said.
A white guard who stood up for Officer Brown was also targeted.
"She stood up for herself with all odds against her," Love said.
She stood up for those with mental illness and substance abuse disorders.
The Democratic presidential hopefuls who stood up for the Dreamers were Sens.
She was very political and stood up for herself and for injustice.
As a man who stood up for his beliefs no matter what.
But they've never had a representative who really stood up for those values.
Actress Jaime King also stood up for Gomez and brought back the #boycottdolceandgabbana.
Shawkat was the only one of the group who stood up for Walter.
King stood up for the rights of everyone and we should honor him.
And we stood up for Boeing on that and we'll see what happens.
The other day on the Tube a pregnant woman stood up for me.
"Mitterrand always had people who stood up for him," Harris Interactive's Levy said.
This isn't the first time Clinton has stood up for President Trump's children.
It's time we stood up for the kind of world our children deserve.
In this situation the GSS stood up for free speech and free association.
And credit to those who stood up for saving an architectural lightning rod.
He was the person that stood up for everyone; he was everyone's voice.
He stood up for his convictions and always fought for the working person.
"Democrats have really not stood up for the Dreamers as they can," Rep.
"My understanding is he stood up for her," the former State official said.
Romney can go to his grandkids and say he stood up for decency.
"She hated it, and she made sure she stood up for it," Blair said.
AND THAT'S THE KIND OF FIRST AMENDMENT FREEDOM THAT I'VE CONSISTENTLY STOOD UP FOR.
In one high-profile moment earlier this year, Cummings stood up for Republican Rep.
When she stood up for the not-yet-born Kardashian baby in her belly.
Fellow Democrats have stood up for her, condemning Trump for inciting violence against Omar.
I love that she stood up, for starting a conversation, we're getting dialogue going.
And as Secretary of State, she stood up for American values around the world.
I believe that he stood up for what he thinks is right as well.
After he debuted his new look, Joc stood up for himself amid the backlash.
But it was Ali who stood up for us by standing up for himself.
He defiantly stood up for New York cops accused of killing unarmed black men.
We have stood up for ourselves, we have talked back, we have moved on.
Very few members of Congress actually stood up for marriage equality in the 1990s.
Each one of them cut me off — all because I stood up for myself.
I'm standing up for Blake today because he has always stood up for me.
They were some of the first people who stood up for the Chicano community.
This isn't the first time that the young boy has stood up for his beliefs.
It's not the first time that the ABC star has stood up for human rights.
"Sloane stood up for the first time the day we took this photo," Storino said.
She stood up for so many women who were scared and didn't have a voice.
This isn't the first time The Parent Trap star has stood up for the president.
I stood up for what I believed in, maintained my standards, and expressed my needs.
The third group stood up for 15 minutes and then sat down for 15 minutes.
He is a very good father, he has stood up for the whole Islamic world.
She has stood up for herself, she has made her own way in the world.
Your big sister when she stood up for you to those bullies that one time.
Lupita Nyong'o, Star Wars star and all-around human treasure, was stood up for prom.
S. iconography, had "stood up for free speech and free association" against anti-fascist groups.
But now Dick's Sporting Goods has stood up for what decency, morality and conscience demand.
A white co-worker stood up for Ms. Ibrahim, she said, and the manager apologized.
Earlier this year, a man who stood up for such women was beaten to death.
I knew at a young age that he stood up for what he believed in.
Many in such queues were women, who had stood up for more than five hours.
" "There have been so many examples of when he has stood up for us - not just for women's tennis but women in general... Everybody has always been very appreciative of him and how he has stood up for the women's side of the game.
I've stood up for Kyle even when I have no idea whether they're right or wrong.
Marie Yovanovitch said she was targeted by Rudy Giuliani and stood up for foreign service officers.
It wasn't just CNN — other news organizations criticized the Obama administration and stood up for Fox.
It's not only Schumer and Sanders who have stood up for Ellison: Mainstream Democrats like Sen.
"I should have stood up for them," Vega, 52, said in a statement to the Post.
People, acting decently for once in this miserable and undignified wasteland, have stood up for Greg.
Google could have stood up for its female employees while demonstrating the value of free speech.
After she stood up for her husband against Gennifer Flowers, she got control of healthcare policy.
She said in March that she "stood up for women who came forward" in doing so.
And Georgia Republican Doug Collins has stood up for independent pharmacists against big chains like CVS.
"She stood up for what she believed in and was full of sheer positivity," Tseng says.
And if they stood up for their rights, they would be thrown out of the country.
Your advertisers are back because your fans stood up for a good man and truth-teller.
The president has simultaneously stood up for Mr. Manafort and tried to distance himself from him.
She stood up for children and struggling families, and spoke out against racism, sexism and xenophobia.
"I've had many women photographers tell me that he stood up for them," Mr. Estrin said.
Others stood up for Star though, and said his words were being taken out of context.
I should have stood up for due process to render what it's supposed to—the truth.
Isn't Mr. Trump the man who stood up for the freedom to say brutally unpleasant things?
Trump even stood up for Sanders, the main challenger of Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Wonder Woman has always stood up for justice, no matter what the patriarchy put in her way.
It changed who I was on a cellular level, the fact that I stood up for myself.
Trump has stood up for the humanity of the unborn child like no president in recent memory.
I've stood up for every handshake, and introduced myself confidently — taking up space and using my voice!
The source notes progressive stances on LGBT issues long before many tech companies stood up for them.
They're an organization that has stood up for kink and sex-positive communities all over the country.
"Today we stood up for privacy rights," MacAuley wrote on Facebook, referring to the challenge in court.
She stood up for us in 1984 when we were banned from playing July 4 D.C. Show.
So the fact that he stood up for her and that he addressed this, I like that.
We should honor—not attack—those who have stood up for equality and other cherished American values.
"In today's meeting, he stood up for a strong America and steadfastly opposed foreign wars," Paul said.
I stood up for her, to which he replied, 'Why don't you go live with her, too?
He also said the citizens who stood up for the rule of law were Romania's biggest advantage.
The girl that stood up for me stopped hanging out with those girls and we became friends.
And what is the worst that would happen to them if they stood up for what's right?
This clearly isn't the first time he has stood up for his brother against their abusive father.
She stood up for Ms. Schutz's painting without making great claims for it or reprimanding the protesters.
But in a subsequent interview, Mr. Gersh stood up for his firm's work in Maryland and elsewhere.
When I stood up for the first time since the crash, I discovered standing made The Headache worse.
"If only I had stood up for myself, raised my voice and backed up my beliefs," she writes.
When she stood up for Kesha amid her legal battle with Dr. Luke, highlighting sexism in the industry.
But at the reunion, Gregg stood up for her and admitted to holding the blunt of the blame.
She has since stood up for independent judiciaries and publicly rebuked Mr Orban's illiberal abuses in neighbouring Hungary.
Tapper, in particular, stood up for Fox News in a disagreement with White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs.
Portman's outing comes after she stood up for equality at Variety's Power of Women summit earlier in October.
Bernie Sanders did something previously unheard of in last night's CNN debate: He stood up for Palestinians' humanity.
"Will his country stand up for him the same way he stood up for American values?" she asked.
What we did was stood up for something that's dear to us, something that's precious—and that's water.
This is not the first time Bill and Hillary Clinton's daughter has stood up for Trump's youngest child.
They stood up for what they believed in and they were never afraid to say what they thought.
Powerful plea A Texas dad stood up for his transgender son and won hearts all across the internet.
An example was set by Abraham Lincoln, who stood up for principle in opposing the war against Mexico.
Justice Elena Kagan stood up for the effectiveness of the science for measuring the bias in the districting.
Nobody stood up for her for fear of a physical altercation, Chevillard later tweeted with guilt, including himself.
" Brown also stood up for her own beliefs, telling Parker, "You're making everything about sex and it's not.
Others stood up for his political views, or at least thought too much was being made of them.
Stringer got more attention when she stood up for her players than the team had for its success.
Nothing fixes a value in your mind better than having stood up for it together with your friends.
We stood up for our ally Israel and began to roll back the UN's relentless bias against her.
Trump "stood up for the tariffs and he broke the Chinese Communist Party," he said earlier this month.
This isn't the first time Cook has taken a stance against discrimination and stood up for human rights.
In 2019, white- and blue-collar workers at big tech firms stood up for what they believed in.
And we have supported teachers who successfully stood up for their kids in strike after strike after strike.
We have to honor both the ones who stood up for civil rights and those killed by police misconduct.
It seems Morgan was upset that Singer hadn't stood up for her during a recent battle with Dorinda Medley.
In late September, Tucker Carlson, a pro-Trump host, mocked Smith when he stood up for Judge Andrew Napolitano.
Fortunately for me the clinic nurse manager, a woman, and two of my male colleagues stood up for me.
The Supreme Court in recent years has stood up for myriad plaintiffs claiming violations of their freedom of expression.
If they take football away, my endorsements from me — I know that I stood up for what is right.
But Zolciak-Biermann quickly stood up for herself, responding, "I love them for now," along with a heart emoji.
Even though they were surrounded and outnumbered by neo-Nazis with torches, they still stood up for what's right.
If President Trump was serious about being a populist who stood up for struggling Americans, this budget indicates otherwise.
Taylor touched on this a little bit last night, and got teary-eyed as she stood up for herself.
"Angie was the type of friend who stood up for others," says Wysocki, the mother of two grown sons.
He believes that he stood up for what's right, for an issue that's bigger than himself or his school.
If they take football away, my endorsements from me – I know that I stood up for what is right.
Yen plays a modest, well-respected Wing Chu master who stood up for justice in the face of adversity.
"We are to be grateful for the family that stood up for what is right," said Democratic state Rep.
She always stood up for me, no matter how I identified, and made that clear to me and others.
"When the committed Brexiteers were in a minority under David Cameron, I stood up for their rights," he said.
Wilde "stood up for himself in the courts, he went to jail and then he was destroyed," says McGough.
If they take football away, my endorsements from me, I know that I stood up for what is right.
"If they take football away, my endorsements from me, I know that I stood up for what is right."
During the impeachment proceedings, no congressional Republicans stood up for Biden or voted in favor of the impeachment articles.
It conjures up images of heartless lawmakers sticking it to heroic educators who simply stood up for their jobs.
"She stood up for American — not partisan — interests as ambassador in Kyiv, just as she always has," Kennedy said.
Amy Klobuchar, who stood up for the candidates with national experience and pointed out the mayor's lack of it.
DJT just stood up for all of those good men who've been slandered in the media the last 4 days.
I've stood up for you countless times, and now I feel like I've have the air kicked out of me.
Griffin stood up for for Maddow and pointed out how much she respects journalists and news outlets like The Times.
The devoted mother also stood up for her son as he endured bullying from friends and schoolmates in their neighborhood.
This isn't the first time Bill and Hillary Clinton's 37-year-old daughter has stood up for a president's child.
And I'm a stand-up kind of babe, so I stood up for them and I don't regret it whatsoever.
This article originally appeared on VICE UK.This July, a member of Parliament stood up for the rights of cannabis consumers.
Genuine or not, he stood up for the heartland when no one else would and that goes a long way.
Great anger...But while Dallas dropped to it knees as a team, they ALL stood up for our National Anthem.
"But while Dallas dropped to its knees as a team, they all stood up for our National Anthem," he wrote.
"But while Dallas dropped to its knees as a team, they all stood up for our National Anthem," he continued.
Great anger... But while Dallas dropped to its knees as a team, they all stood up for our National Anthem.
His life is a vacuum of principle, and he never seems to have stood up for anything larger than himself.
" Sharks coach Peter DeBoer basically stood up for his players, saying: "Whether or not I thought it was doesn't matter.
When I was a college student, I stood up for the rights of communists despite my strong opposition to communism.
Great anger But while Dallas dropped to its knees as a team, they all stood up for our National Anthem.
There's a small memorial noting the historic events that took place as students stood up for their First Amendment rights.
Kaia told Carlson that after watching her take on Fox, she went to those girls and stood up for herself.
Two years later, in 2015, he stood up for a Marine colonel facing a litany of charges, including sexual harassment.
When Cuomo has stood up for reproductive rights, critics say he's shown himself to be out-of-touch and misguided.
You said your first words to me and you also stood up for the first time when I was there.
You said your first words to me and you also stood up for the first time when I was there.
Great anger   But while Dallas dropped to its knees as a team, they all stood up for our National Anthem.
"My partner's mom actually stood up for me when someone said something racist once at Thanksgiving dinner," Kelly-Quattrocchi said.
Yes, he has harshly criticized Israel and stood up for Palestinian rights, the readers said, but that's not anti-Semitism.
She created a more collaborative environment and stood up for her team if deadlines were missed or projects went off track.
And, as Simon Levis Sullam's vigorously revisionist history makes clear, while many Italians stood up for the Jews, many did not.
This is now the second time Tess has been stood up for Simone, and her anger spills over into her work.
Solange even famously taught Beyonce how to "speak her mind" and stood up for her older sister in that elevator situation.
" Martin added, "It's time Ashford stood up for Nebraskans who deserve better than Hillary Clinton, who enables corruption, scandals and lies.
Warning: Explicit Language Meanwhile Tyga seemingly stood up for his girlfriend in a series of videos obtained by The Shade Room.
It's still there in a weird way, but in our day to be from Venice, you stood up for the neighborhood.
" Rubio stood up for Comey's character, saying that while the former FBI director wasn't perfect, he was a "patriotic, hardworking American.
Shoulder to shoulder, in towns, suburbs and cities across Australia, we stood up for the country we want to create together.
Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican and good friend of McCain's, stood up for the late lawmaker Sunday without mentioning Trump.
"If they take football away, my endorsements from me, I know that I stood up for what is right," Kaepernick said.
Police say Christian stabbed the men to death after they stood up for a 16-year-old and her Muslim friend.
" He continued, "If they take football away, my endorsements from me, I know that I stood up for what is right.
Bloodied, probably missing a tooth or two, barely able to support himself, Dorsey stood up for the bell in the 12th.
And a retired general, John Allen, stood up for her as a former commander of United States military forces in Afghanistan.
The New York senator last month defended that decision, saying she "stood up for women who came forward" in doing so.
CNN's critics defend Acosta Even Chuck Ross of The Daily Caller, a website that harshly criticizes CNN, stood up for Acosta.
Their friend had been ostracized because she had stood up for my nieces, refusing to go along with the mean girls.
Your courage has paved the way for my life to be easier, and I wish I would've stood up for you.
In some important moments, he stood up for the Justice Department's ideals, above all by appointing Robert Mueller as special counsel.
In the immediate aftermath of Cohen's arrest on charges of tax evasion and other financial crimes, Trump stood up for him.
And I wish that we, as a party, would have stood up, for example, when the birtherism thing was going along.
Mr. Sessions is also mounting a vigorous effort to show that he stood up for civil rights as a federal prosecutor.
"She stood up for American values around the world, working to end the trafficking of women and girls," the ad says.
With Justice Kennedy's retirement, America should be grateful to a man who consistently stood up for individual freedom, even when unpopular.
"If they take football away, my endorsements from me, I know that I stood up for what is right," he says.
In my case, I want to tell my eighth-grade cousin that I'm proud of how she's stood up for herself.
He was known for his kindness and inclusive spirit, and he stood up for people who could not stand up for themselves.
In a statement, Howell's family said he always stood up for what he believed and didn't hesitate to help those in need.
Great anger [24 EDT] - But while Dallas dropped to its knees as a team, they all stood up for our National Anthem.
"I should have stood up for them," said Vega, 52, who has worked with Rose since the show was created in 1991.
When Gorsuch was awaiting confirmation, he criticized a Trump attack on a judge and stood up for the independence of the judiciary.
As the woman demanded to see the teen's license, a man, Jay Lopez, exited the store and stood up for the girl.
"These amazing people stood up for what they believed, even if it meant some type of physical or emotional hurt," she says.
He recently stood up for the Reputation songstress when she was accused of copying Beyoncé's visuals from "Formation" for her "LWYMMD" video.
Such hounding was more the way of Mr Obama (who addressed university students in 2009 and firmly stood up for human rights).
" 9:39 AM PT -- Matt Stafford's wife, Kelly, has just weighed in ... PRAISING Fournette for "the way he stood up for himself.
" Rose later wrote, "I've always stood up for the people I love and against things I think are cheap or mean spirited.
"She stood up for what was right, regardless of popular opinion," the family's statement said according to Baltimore Sun reporter Justin Fenton.
To allow someone to spread vicious lies and flat out fabrications is not ok and it's time someone stood up for themselves.
In nearly every scene, she stood up for herself and her choices; at one point, she tossed a milkshake in Kenickie's face.
Their crime was not that they stood up for women's rights, but that they wanted to stage simultaneous campaigns in several cities.
The Famous In Love star just stood up for Gomez when a fan shaded the "Bad Liar" singer over a wardrobe malfunction.
Blac Chyna stood up for herself after a celebrity fan account posted paparazzi shots of Chyna without makeup and in a jumpsuit.
To Uber drivers, she was one of the few people who stood up for what many of them always felt they deserved.
Whether it was John Lennon, Nirvana, Kathleen Hanna, Patti Smith, or Freddie Mercury, my favorite musicians have always stood up for things.
The democracy Guatemalans bravely stood up for and defended in 2015 is now nearly dead, yet there are paradoxical signs of life.
These are people who have stood up for America, they are teachers and servants, and I'm not going to leave them behind.
That news came toward the end of the marathon session, when House Oversight Committee chairman Elijah Cummings stood up for Republican Rep.
She has stood up for the values of her country against a policy that has dragged those values into a tropical swamp.
Colbert joins a number of other late-night hosts, such as Seth Meyers and Trevor Noah, who have stood up for Wolf.
"Forest Hills was the first time that anyone stood up for the middle class," he told The New York Times in 1988.
Bucking her party and resisting enormous pressure from Republican leadership, she stood up for Americans by voting against multiple irresponsible health plans.
"It'd be much better in the city of Memphis if all people got together and stood up for rights," Mr. Nickleberry said.
When asked why the incident made Nomi cry, she responds that it was the first time someone ever stood up for her.
Kaepernick stood up for what he thought was right, and it's nice of Cardi B to recognize him for it at the ceremony.
Tiffany A., Maryland Three of my colleagues stood up for me In 1998, I was the only female doctor in a medical clinic.
Hunter provided the con arguments, pointing out all the reasons why Titanic is a terrible movie, and I stood up for the film.
Evan Rachel Wood has stood up for others who identify as bisexual, but the actress still feels there's a long way to go.
Mrs Merkel wants to be remembered as the chancellor who stood up for the multilateral, liberal, individual order when it was under challenge.
The 17-year-old reprimanded the child and when the child's older brother stood up for him, both were punished by the guard.
I even stood up for her when she was attacked by Nicole Z., who said she did not deserve her win on Invasion.
"I am very proud to have stood with my brave clients who stood up for themselves and all the silenced women," she added.
I always felt I'd "handled it" and stood up for myself in those situations, but there were never any consequences for the perpetrators.
Since our nation's birth, various groups — people of color, women, LGBTQ individuals, disability activists, and many more — have stood up for equal rights.
"Right now, the U.S.O.C. is not standing up in terms of a responsibility to those who stood up for a cause," he said.
I stood up for the system last season, but even I can admit that this year's Metro is making it harder to defend.
We've stood up for the men and Women in law enforcement, directing federal agencies to ensure they are protected from crimes of violence.
He says if he's glad he stood up for himself, even though he had to miss a school dance due to his suspension.
It's about empowering women with words that women need to hear, like "Each time she stood up for herself, her legs grew stronger."
"Well done HK Government for heeding concerns of the brave citizens who have stood up for their human rights," Hunt said on Twitter.
" That tweet was followed by, "But while Dallas dropped to its knees as a team, they all stood up for our National Anthem.
Stars such as Usher, 50 Cent, and Whoopi Goldberg stood up for Bieber in the wake of the backlash and Bieber swiftly apologized.
Trump "stood up for the tariffs and he broke the Chinese Communist Party," said Bannon, ex-Trump chief strategist and longtime China critic.
I've stood up for these men and women of conscience and character who do difficult, often dangerous jobs to ensure our country's security.
But they also stood up for vitally important values of freedom, rights and national independence, whereas Lee and Jackson fundamentally fought for slavery.
That is why it's so important that these two men stood up for their right to sit in a chair without buying anything.
For them, Wilson had rightly stood up for order and been punished by a political system too eager to defer to unruly masses.
Max credits the people who stood up for their rights for his own successful journey, which of course includes his transformative TV sitcom.
Mohanan said he felt it was important that he stood up for the integrity of the organization, the NSSO, where he built his career.
Fans on Twitter stood up for the Netflix actress, calling upon the world to educate her, rather than slam her for her misguided opinions.
Schumer on Monday afternoon argued that Republican senators who have previously stood up for whistleblower protections are now staying quiet in fear of Trump.
An unsealed deposition obtained by The Blast, demonstrated that, when interrogated by Dr. Luke's lawyers, Lady Gaga stood up for fellow pop star Kesha.
He was just being a dick and I stood up for myself and he tried to act like I was being the bad guy.
My classmates and I all recall kind teachers who stood up for kids being bullied and who did not tolerate harassment of any kind.
President Trump has boldly stood up for the worst aspects of human nature and future generations need to understand everything he's done for us.
The 9/11 families are deeply appreciative that large majorities in each body faced down the lobbying onslaught and stood up for terrorism victims.
Thank you to everyone who stood up for curves- our voices were heard and together we can help me win Rookie of the Year.
They will remember which legislators stood up for them instead of for the lobbyists and the wealthy elite, and they'll certainly remember who didn't.
To many fans it appeared that if you held Wanderlei Silva down you would be stood up for stalling and given a yellow card.
Ingham County Circuit Judge Rosemarie Aquilina isn't just a hero to countless Americans for the way she stood up for victims of sexual violence.
"From what I read and what I saw, I think he's right and he stood up for what he believes in," the professor said.
Then-ABC News correspondent Jake Tapper stood up for Fox in 2009 when President Barack Obama implied the latter was not a news organization.
It was not that long ago that galleries and museums stood up for artistic freedom, despite the outcry from the public and from politicians.
I want to be able to look back and know that I stood up for something I believe in and created a lasting change.
They include Punjabi politician Salman Taser, who stood up for Ms. Bibi in 2011, only to be assassinated for that by his own bodyguard.
While the opinion pages have stood up for the city, the news pages have tried to lay out all the facts that debunk Trump.
In 1981, her first coach, Danny Damario, had stood up for her and awarded her a roster spot in an open minor peewee tryout.
Anam Ahmad, 26 Princess Leia inspired me to be a strong, bold, unapologetic woman who stood up for what was right and spoke up.
While America isolated itself and debated intervening in Europe as the Holocaust raged on, Captain America stood up for injustice when his country would not.
After the sentencing, Heyer's mother, Susan Bro said she hoped her daughter would be remembered as a regular person who stood up for her beliefs.
After the game, St Petersburg's player-manager, a white man from Texas named Tom Hamilton, stood up for Pennington and rallied the team behind him.
"I always felt I'd 'handled it' and stood up for myself in those situations, but there were never any consequences for the perpetrators," she added.
President Woodrow Wilson stood up for Albania, stopping a plan to dismember the country and hand the pieces to its neighbors, Italy, Greece and Serbia.
During the riots in the aftermath of the killing of Freddie Gray, he stood tall, stood with and stood up for the damned and dispossessed.
"So many people tell me that you guys treat people of color like [expletive], and I always stood up for you," Youngblood told arresting officers.
Later, at that fateful dinner, she stood up for Aydin by confronting Josephs about some of the negative things she had said in the past.
It wasn't until late 1969 that Esquire, one of the boxer's few high profile supporters in the mainstream media, finally stood up for the fighter.
"It's about time someone stood up for the people of our country," he said, adding that his statements were backed up 100% by the military.
"One pair of boys in the program overheard another student being called 'gay' in a derogatory way, and they stood up for him," she says.
Time and again, Trump has stood up for Flynn even when it undercut the president's position or went against advice he received from trusted sources.
When out of the blue, a stranger sent her a naked picture on Snapchat that left nothing to the imagination, she stood up for herself.
They don't believe he has stood up for them in the fight over transgender bathroom laws, and they're alarmed by his soft rhetoric on abortion.
" Ayotte praised her longtime friend and Senate colleague on CNN's "State of the Union," noting that McCain "always stood up for what he believed in.
A great mayor, senator, and mentor, he made the world safer, stood up for better foreign policy, and knew how to work across the aisle.
She recalled having a boss that belittled her in public because she was a woman, and that two young male colleagues stood up for her.
They stood up for reproductive health and rights and ran against politicians who could not defend their record of voting to block access to care.
In front of millions of Americans, she stood up for working women and mothers, arguing for equal wages, better child care and paid family leave.
The Republican jurist from Colorado stood up for Gutierrez-Brizuela in a decision recently handed down by the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver.
Beyond removing important protections for women, the president has also repeatedly stood up for men who've been accused of sexual misconduct or other abusive behavior.
That's exactly what happened, but Mykenna stood up for herself with a speech about the importance of being kind, and Tammy was eliminated shortly after.
As a former Republican, I commend Bob Corker, Jeff Flake, John McCain and the rest of the Republicans who have stood up for their principles.
Pete Buttigieg, who has raised money from the chief executives of several tech companies, stood up for Uber and Lyft drivers at a recent rally.
But, Shaq stood up for Morey before the NBA's season officially tipped off Tuesday ... saying he thinks the guy was right to voice his opinion.
Comedian Kathy Najimy noted the location's significance as she lauded those who stood up for women's rights in the first year of the Trump administration.
During his eight years in Congress, Pompeo was known as a conservative firebrand who unapologetically bashed liberals and stood up for red-meat Republican causes.
When Luke Parker, one of the contestants on her season, told her she shouldn't have sex with the other men, Brown stood up for herself.
According to GLAAD, Spears has consistently stood up for LGBTQ youth on GLAAD's Spirit Day by going purple on social media to speak out against bullying.
Audiences saw how the rest of the women in our group of survivors stood up for Carol when her abusive husband, Ed, tried to control her.
In the midst of it all, President Trump stood up for America on the world stage and worked to unleash the best economy in the world.
Men have ignored my complaints and left me when I stood up for myself, completely validating the notion that an outspoken woman is a lonely one.
"We're speaking to inspiring women who've stood up for art, or the strength of different cultural aspects that we don't see reflected in media," she says.
A kind stranger is gaining the support of thousands online after he stood up for a teenage girl who was selling candy outside of a store.
Krasinski, 39, proudly stood up for his wife as soon as she was announced as the winner, remaining standing and clapping until she took the stage.
" Beador stood up for Judge to Dodd, telling viewers, "The words that come out of this woman's mouth — I can't comprehend how her mind is working.
"I never really stood up for myself because I just wanted to make it through and not rock the boat and endanger my career," she says.
The courage of the people who stood up for them is a reminder that we as a city need to stand together to denounce the hate.
Aviva Raz Shechter, Israel's ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, told the Human Rights Council that her country had always stood up for human rights.
On his next program, Mr. Haddad appeared in black-and-white-stripe prison scrubs and showed clips of Lebanese personalities who had stood up for him.
"Felicity stood up for me, saying it was fair because the success of the show depended on all of us, not one of us," Longoria recalls.
At the Green Haven Correctional Facility in Dutchess County, Sostre was once again put in solitary confinement — and once again he stood up for his rights.
" It also highlighted that he had been "banned from Twitter" and has "taken on and exposed the Deep State Socialists and stood up for Western Values.
While nearly all Republicans in Congress cheered Pruitt's policy actions and deregulation, few lawmakers stood up for him following President Trump's tweet that he was leaving.
Many of the actors who stood up for Mr. Ustinov work in government-sponsored theaters and in state-supported films, making them particularly vulnerable to retaliation.
Thursday: "If I lose my seat because I stood up for my principles, that's O.K." We talked to two House freshmen just before the impeachment vote.
"They stood up for a couple of the ovations," a fellow concertgoer tells PEOPLE, adding that Radiohead's 1995 song "Fake Plastic Trees" got Johnson on her feet.
When Turkish women like Hüda Kaya, a parliamentarian with the Kurdish-backed Peoples Democratic Party or HDP, stood up for the Kurds, they became targets of hate.
This story goes all the way back to 2012, when Nicki Minaj tweeted about how she stood up for herself after being bullied once as a kid.
When they tried out new words, or told me to go back to China, or babbled in their made-up languages, no one stood up for me.
Still, it almost feels like, in a way, the NBA stood up for the citizens of a state that refuses to listen to its own collective conscious.
Haley has stood up for Israel at the UN and pulled out of the Human Rights Council because she accused it of having an anti-Israel bias.
The Baltimore Ravens legend just posted a video saying he applauds what Colin stood up for last season ... but says he needs to change his PR plan.
Trump's last effort to cut NIH funding was blocked by both Democrats and Republicans who stood up for the scientists there who are working on medical breakthroughs.
For years, these comments made all the negativity worth it -- especially coming from those users who stood up for me and fought the trolls on my behalf.
The former child star recently stood up for herself on social media after she was criticized for being inappropriately dressed at a recent event promoting Modern Family.
Nicole wrote the lyrics after one of her coworkers was sexually harassed at work and faced indifference and condescension from management when she stood up for herself.
Having opposed the ECB's easy monetary policy for years, Weidmann stood up for the institution when it was attacked by German finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble last month.
"Guardians of the Galaxy" director James Gunn stood up for the Marvel Cinematic Universe after it faced criticism from veteran directors Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola.
"I stood up for a mother on my team and doing so sent me down a path that destroyed my career trajectory at Google," the memo concludes.
That I stood up for my beliefs and stood my ground even with a great deal of backlash is a bigger accomplishment than graduating summa cum laude.
"His convictions that he stood up for in court, whether they're right or wrong, at least what he believes in, he does stand for," Mr. Peoples said.
They will surely remember which politicians took the high road and stood up for the rights of women, especially women of color, and which ones did not.
Though he's stood up for her and definitely has chemistry with her, he's had a lot of drama with Kelsey already (drama he stoked, but moving on).
They stood up for the House of Representatives&apos "sole power of impeachment," a power granted in the Constitution, including the right to subpoena witnesses and evidence.
TV networks and other news outlets had to relocate -- prompting grumbling from reporters who said that the White House should have stood up for the American press.
It could have stood up for all students who have, over the years, silently faced the brunt of his views but have not felt empowered to complain.
In an interview with the Associated Press on Friday, the "I Like It" rapper, 26, revealed that she declined because of the way Kaepernick "stood up" for minorities.
Williams said pioneers in her sport stood up for pay equality in the 1970s and that the time may be right for soccer to level its playing field.
Though his policies largely reflect those of his predecessor, former attorney general Jeff Sessions, Barr had stood up for Trump in the Russia investigation before he was nominated.
She also stood up for the youngest Trump back in January, when he received backlash for not looking extremely pumped during every single moment of his dad's inauguration.
But it&aposs also because of one man, one man who stood up for the unborn boys and girls who invited us in, and who kept his word.
" The actresses shared the experience of being dismissed as "difficult' when they stood up for themselves or feeling that their jobs were threatened if they were too assertive.
The actor stood up for the film in a new interview with Attitude, where he urges fans not to judge the whole movie from a minute-long teaser.
In the present day, Miguel Rivas (Jon Huertas) stood up for himself and his wife, Rebecca Pearson-Rivas (Mandy Moore), in the face of his judgey adult kids.
President Obama and other prominent men have stood up for equal pay for equal work, but do we really think Trump and his economic team of Steves will?
" Michael Ahrens, a spokesman for the Republican National Committee: "Republicans are going to make sure voters remember who stood up for Americans' priorities, and who stood against them.
" Wilson stood up for herself, explaining that "it's not that I'm not attracted to them, it's just that the guys I have gone out with have been thin.
"Thank you to everyone who stood up for curves -- our voices were heard and together we can help me win Rookie of the Year," she wrote on Instagram.
Getting stood up for a date or an appointment isn't always so awful; often, the person who bailed on you isn't meant to be in your life anyway.
Kilmeade agreed with Bruce's remarks, before adding that he has loved how she has stood up for Carlson despite the criticism he's received over the newly unearthed audio.
Anthony had 23 points, 11 rebounds, seven assists and also stood up for C Kristaps Porzingis when he got into a stare-down with Hawks F Kent Bazemore.
Jobs stood up for his employee and made it clear to the men that if they wouldn't speak with Apple's female representative, he wouldn't do business with them.
At the center of that resistance is the story of Scholl, a young woman who stood up for her convictions when most others were turning a blind eye.
Even though throughout multiple rounds of combat on Wednesday night more progressive candidates got in their licks on Biden, the former vice president stood up for himself ably.
Article of the Day Before reading the article: Can you think of a time when a famous artist or performer stood up for something and created positive change?
It's a proud moment for me and for the girls I stood up for and for the ongoing global progress that is happening around girls' and women's rights.
Booker and Rep O'Rourke, who stood up for the facts while standing up to Trump, and the DNC who demanded that Facebook take down his ridiculous, false ad.
The UK Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said on Twitter: "Well done HK Government for heeding concerns of the brave citizens who have stood up for their human rights".
" Aiyer said Postmates is bracing for pushback from consumers who disagree with the company's stance — but, he added, "it matters more to us that women are stood up for.
Williams Stood Up for Her Anger Management Treatment and Stood Up to Burruss and Moore Williams' hot tempter and history of violent behavior has been extensively documented on RHOA.
Mr Koch didn't mind too much about party affiliation, he told reporters, and regretted his past support for Republicans who had not stood up for the principles he espouses.
The former first lady, 54, credits past first daughters who paved the way for Malia and Sasha — and have stood up for their fair treatment in the years since.
The Mean Girls star also addressed an altercation she alleged to have had with ex-fiancé, Egor Tarabasov, saying "not one person stood up" for her at the time.
"So proud of the women & men who stood up for what is right & are determined to make this world a better place for our children," Kardashian West, 36, wrote.
On Tuesday night, those who have fought both for our country and against racism stood up for Kaepernick's right to protest, using the #VeteransForKaepernick hashtag on social media networks.
" The legendary QB stood up for the ex-Packers head man after he was canned following a loss to the lowly Cardinals on Sunday, saying, "Mike McCarthy deserves better.
Anthony had 23 points, 11 rebounds and seven assists and also stood up for C Kristaps Porzingis when he got into a stare-down with Hawks F Kent Bazemore.
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest and former President Bill Clinton both stood up for the healthcare law, while also noting there are areas that need to be fixed.
"I stood up for a mother on my team and doing so sent me down a path that destroyed my career trajectory at Google," she said in the memo.
Had he not stood up for principle and what was right, the damage it would have done to me emotionally and professionally at that point would have been immense.
In an era where tweets & rallies are so gross & awful, I fondly remember the day McCain stopped a lady from calling Obama an Arab & stood up for empirical truth.
"I have received a few notes from other mothers, who wrote to me and said, 'My daughter was being picked on and Emma stood up for her,' " she says.
And it stood up for the civil rights of minorities threatened by the policies of Donald Trump, leading to a surge in membership and donations over the past year.
Well, this world — one in which our host stood up for less racism, then cracked a joke about the academy's accountants being cute Asian kids who make our iPhones.
"I wish that we as a party would have stood up, for example, when the birtherism thing was going on," Flake lamented on Meet the Press this past Sunday.
Makonnen's partying hard in a pool full of girls while distraught dudes wake up alone and get stood up for dates because who could possibly ever match the swag?
The day before, the head of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Mohammad Ali Jafari, stood up for Hezbollah, saying that it should have the best weapons to protect Lebanon.
Sonia Sotomayor's Book Is a Hit With Hispanic Kids: 'I Like How She Stood Up for Herself'The Supreme Court justice has two new children's books adapted from her memoir.
Accomplished through bipartisan support, members of Congress stood up for blood cancer and blood disease patients in need of a donor and modernized Medicare reimbursement to ensure equal access.
And because I stood up for myself, my vision, Team OV, and early investors I am no longer with the Company I started and am labeled 'difficult' and 'mercurial.
Perhaps Matthews's friends who are lauding him as a great American journalist should look to the women who stood up for truth as the real heroes of this story.
Photos: Not just a knee He was quick to excuse those who booed, noting they jeered only when the Cowboys knelt, before the team stood up for the anthem.
We've shaped the conversation on so many important issues in this race, stood up for the most vulnerable people and given a voice to those who are often forgotten.
Huffman's former Desperate Housewives costar, Eva Longoria, also submitted a letter to the judge, saying the actor was exceptionally kind to her and stood up for her on set.
Speaking to lawmakers in Paris on Wednesday, France's junior minister for Europe, Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, said the U.S. behavior meant it was time that Europe stood up for itself.
She's stood up for the anonymous whistleblower who's come under attack by Trump and panned the "terribly unwise decision by the president to abandon our Kurdish allies" in Syria.
While many people — including some Black Lives Matter activists — criticized the shooting, very few defended Noor in the same way they have stood up for police officers in previous incidents.
We need more people to stand up the way you have stood up for the rights of women, for justice, for the rights of minorities, for the rights of everyone.
Even in death—even when history has proven him right—America still fears and struggles with the black Muslim man who stood up for himself and what he believed in.
Ex-Obama adviser David Axelrod stood up for her, saying Trump should provide any evidence he has and slamming the allegation as beneath the dignity of the President's office. 4.
Trustees, often paid hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, are under pressure to prove they have stood up for shareholders in an industry that has $16 trillion under management.
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star, 55, stood up for herself after an internet troll claimed her body was the reason for her daughter Amelia Gray Hamlin's eating disorder.
"I'm honestly a little embarrassed to say that part of the reason Heather got so much attention is because she's white and she stood up for black people," Bro said.
Yet, despite the life-threatening risk posed to any black person who stood up for their rights in the Jim Crow south, Taylor did not hesitate to seek justice immediately.
Why it matters: Pelosi and Clyburn previously stood up for Conyers, but the continued allegations against Conyers have motivated House leadership to increase their pressure in calling for his resignation.
The same way this country chose to embrace marriage equality or stood up for women's rights—historic reluctance was suddenly overridden by an emotional response that saw us as equals.
" McCarthy's statement of support mirrors that of Scalise, who said he was "confident" that Jordan "would stand up for his athletes, just like he's always stood up for what's right.
He had stood up for religious conservatives, who had carried him into office, at a moment when many of them seemed to doubt the depth of his allegiance to them.
This latter point is important because McGahn stood up for the idea that the White House counsel's loyalty is to the Office of the President, not to the President himself.
In interviews, Prince Mohammed and other Saudi officials have stood up for the new approach, saying that the kingdom needs to play a more assertive role in shaping its region.
He stood up for us when no one else did," he said, adding, "There's nothing short of a smoking gun that will make us believe he could have done this.
Ben is a friend of mine, who stood up for me when I was grabbed and bruised by one of Donald Trump's campaign managers, Corey Lewandowski, during the Republican primary.
They've stood up for the basic right of health care, and against the wrong of more tax cuts for the rich — foundational positions favored by a majority of the country.
Mami Lestari, 38, a niece of Suharto's who lives in Kemusuk, said that despite the excesses of some of her uncle's cronies, he always stood up for the little people.
He reiterated the UAW's position that its members "stood up for General Motors during their darkest hours," referring to the company's bankruptcy and federal bailout after the 2008 financial crisis.
"We thank Americans who stood up for the seven countries blocked from entering the US by the new travel ban," one popular Iranian Twitter account stated, with the hashtag #LoveBeyondFlags.
But if certain boomer pundits are going to blame us for everything, it's time we stood up for ourselves the best way we know how: by writing a passive-aggressive listicle.
"These voters stood up for their nation—they put the United Kingdom first, and they took their country back," Trump's campaign wrote in a fundraising email just after the Brexit vote.
Offset may have been more apologetic than Markle, but both men were attempting to conjure public sympathy toward their own cause and cast doubt on women who stood up for themselves.
" Later in the show, Ingraham hosted Meadows, who she praised: "Mark Meadows, Republican (of) North Carolina who stood up for common sense and pragmatism in trade and was punished for it.
For some who made the trip to Washington Square Park, June 23 marked the first time that they'd ever stood up for themselves and their communities in such a public way.
The "Versace On The Floor" performer has long stood up for causes like Black Lives Matter, without sugar-coating his opinions or hiding them in "We Are The World"-type evasions.
The dry, almost clinical tone could scarcely be more different from the meditative mood the Supreme Court struck the last time it stood up for abortion rights, in Planned Parenthood v.
WATCH: John and Emily's Love Story Krasinski proudly stood up for his wife as soon as she was announced as the winner, remaining standing and clapping until she took the stage.
"Airbnb put a lot of pressure on Governor Cuomo and spent millions, so I'm gratified that he stood up for the cause of affordable housing and protecting tenants," Ms. Rosenthal said.
"Half a world away, wearing our nation's uniform, John McCain stood up for every value that this Capitol building represents," said Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky and the majority leader.
This summer, when his party was trying to force a health bill with unprecedented haste — no hearings, no support from medical experts — McCain stood up for the idea of the Senate.
As a councilman, Mr. Albanese sponsored a living wage bill that survived a veto by Mayor Giuliani and stood up for gay rights at political and some personal risk in 1986.
We got comedian Alonzo Bodden -- himself a "Last Comic Standing" champ -- at the Laugh Factory and he stood up for Jay, explaining why he feels it was NOT a racist joke.
Editorial The New Jersey Supreme Court stood up for transparency this week with its ruling that dashboard-camera videos must be made public when fatal force is used by the police.
" She said the "prohibitive measures" were "purposeful and blatant discrimination of the Russian media by a candidate to the presidency of a state that historically stood up for freedom of speech.
After the event, Crucet tweeted that there had been "aggressive & ignorant comments" during her Q&A and thanked "some very amazing, brilliant students" who stood up for her during the exchange.
As I mentioned earlier in my opening monologue, as we continue from London tonight, the media cannot stand it, that President Trump actually stood up for America today on the world stage.
Hedvig — named, Carlsen said, after a legend of "someone who stood up for others and fought for their causes: that's what we do," — will sound familiar to you if you know Lemonade.
The deepest tensions lie around China's slowness to open up its economy, a surge of Chinese takeovers in critical sectors and an impression that Beijing has not stood up for free trade.
Akin to slavery, where people came into this country to do guest work were abused, were exploited, and if they stood up for their rights, they'd be thrown out of this country.
My fellow actresses stood by me and stood up for me, my activist friends taught me to use my voice, and the most powerful men in charge, they listened and they acted.
" But while the event was advertised as a speech by the "Godfather of the Hipster movement' who has "stood up for Western Values," the event was actually a reenactment of an assassination.
But as longtime Democrats, we have both advocated for workers rights, stood up for America's middle-class, and fought for environmental standards that protect our land, water, and the air we breathe.
"Dan Wenk stood up for wildlife and united voices around solutions and we need to ensure that same approach will continue," Bart Melton, a regional director for the group, said on Friday.
The deepest tensions lie around China's slowness to open up its economy, Chinese takeovers in critical sectors in the EU and an impression that Beijing has not stood up for free trade.
By choosing Ratcliffe, Trump has tapped a Republican who as recently as last week stood up for him on one of the biggest stages of his presidency during the Robert Mueller hearings.
A month later, she took her seat at the State of the Union and stood up for the impeached commander in chief who declared he'd done nothing wrong, merely pursued America's greatness.
" When she was harassed at Walmart and the grocery store, she wished someone had stood up for her: "Nobody said anything to those people, nobody stopped them, nobody tried to protect me.
Spiegel stood up for Snapchat when Facebook tried to buy it out and also (along with some help from Reggie Brown) invented the concept of ephemerality — which Facebook and Instagram outright stole.
"They remember the way that she stood up for Christine Blasey Ford and looked her in the eye and said,'You're not on trial here,'" Ian Sams, Harris's national press secretary, said.
She loved the Party and she loved her husband, and later, when she was a powerful woman, she always stood up for people who fell out of favor, always defended their Leninist credentials.
In an interview with Jansen in 2013, released by the JSC, the judge burnished her transformation credentials and said that her father -- also a judge -- had stood up for Nelson Mandela in court.
Kitt was not only multi-talented, but she stood up for what she believed in when it wasn't stylish to do so — speaking up against the [Vietnam] war and fighting for equal education.
Some accused Swift of being vindictive, while others stood up for the singer, saying she wouldn't stoop that low: Apparently, Taylor Swift is releasing her album on Donda West's (Kanye's mom) death anniversary.
She landed a blow in the debate when she stood up for Alicia Machado, now a famous Latina actress who Trump called "Miss Piggy" in 1996 when she won the Miss Universe pageant.
The Quiet Place director, 39, was the only one in the room who stood up for Blunt, 35, when she won — and he stayed standing and enthusiastically clapping until she got on stage.
Erin BrockovichJulia Roberts kicks booty as the real-life legal assistant who stood up for victims of a contaminated water cover-up when no one else would – all while powering through single motherhood.
In his victory, a triumph over the slurs that tried to tie him to Islamist extremism, Khan stood up for openness against isolationism, integration against confrontation, opportunity for all against racism and misogyny.
Many suggested tickling or sneezing on the feet, while others said that the woman should have stood up for herself and asked them to move, or gotten a flight attendant to do so.
The revisions have broad support in parliament, where few politicians have stood up for LGBT rights for fear of alienating a largely conservative voter base ahead of legislative and presidential elections next year.
Yet when asked whether WeWork and its corporate parent, The We Company, were the ultimate example of all things wrong with unicorns, Benioff stood up for WeWork's cofounder and former CEO, Adam Neumann.
"I have always known Jim Jordan to be honest, and I'm confident he would stand up for his athletes, just like he's always stood up for what's right," Scalise said in a statement.
That's exactly what happened when people decided to #BoycottStarbucks for hiring refugees and #BoycottHamilton because its actors stood up for American values; yes, both boycotts got plenty of attention, but they ultimately backfired.
He's stood up for feminism, marched for LGBT pride, personally welcomed Syrian refugees, and proposed important yet controversial legislation for everything from legalizing medically-assisted suicide to legalizing the recreational use of marijuana.
Gutiérrez, who came from a humble upbringing in Sinaloa State, was known as the mature leader who often stood up for Lozano, a small speedster whose hardheaded personality clashed with coaches and teammates.
Not only a testimony to an occluded genocide, Stojka's art also stood up for the possibility — even the necessity — for human creativity to represent, and take ownership of, the darkest chapters of history.
"It's symbolic for people who stood up for this nation's freedom to stand up for the first inhabitants of this nation," said Dave Archambault II, chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux, on Saturday.
Her mother recalled her daughter organizing a sit-in when she was 11 to try and pressure local officials for a new recreation center, and when she stood up for a troubled neighbor.
While viewing "I, Daniel Blake," it's easy to forget that Mr. Loach is a polemicist who has always stood up for working-class Britons, whom his films portray as oppressed, mistreated and noble.
Ms Tucker, in singing the song, both pays tribute and joins their number: "She, she, she stood up for us / She testified / Me, me too my body cried out / She spoke those lines".
For generations, in the face of powerful opposition, we have stood up for the idea that protecting the dignity and rights of working people is a cause in which everyone has a stake.
Yet all of that changed with Wednesday night's "Watcher In The Woods," which gave Betty's best friend the most powerful storyline of season 2 so far, as Kevin finally stood up for his sexuality.
" 'People can misunderstand anger for strength because they can't differentiate between the two … No one has stood up for themselves the way you have and you need to continue trailblazing,' " Williams said Osaka wrote.
The Clinton campaign Reach: Aired in Michigan Impact: This ad is particularly effective because it uses average citizens from Flint telling viewers that Hillary Clinton stood up for them during the city's water crisis.
Zim in the movie  Starship Troopers, but who, on that day, stood up for his rights as a voice actor in popular video games like  Call of Duty,  God of War, and many others.
He stood his ground, and stood up for the right of his penis, and all other like-minded penises to expel waste as God intended: in the company of other penises and ONLY penises.
In Minneapolis, a bystander stood up for her friend who was being harassed at a bar by a man who had allegedly raped her in the past by reporting the guy to the bouncer.
" The club advertised the event on its Facebook page saying, "Banned from Twitter — this Godfather of the Hipster Movement has taken on and exposed the Deep State Socialists and stood up for Western Values.
" One caller asked to share with the department that when her sister was assaulted by a white US citizen, "it was an undocumented individual who stood up for her and prevented the intended assault.
We are thankful to the Mayor, Commissioner [Meera] Joshi and the Taxi and Limousine Commission, City Council Member Brad Lander and all of the city officials who listened to and stood up for drivers.
And yet, last week, Ivanka Trump stood up for women and mothers at the Republican National Convention, arguing in favor of equal wages for equal work, improved child care structures and paid family leave.
Our deepest gratitude and esteem go to the seven U.S. Representatives who courageously stood up for democracy during the recent joint session of Congress and objected to the certification of the Electoral College vote.
On Thursday's broadcast, Ripa, 47, stood up for Seacrest, 43, applauding his professionalism and saying she is looking forward to seeing him at the Oscars on Sunday, when he is set to host E!
"I think I've given you one big reason to ask for your vote — I've stood up for you and you know I'll continue to stand up for the conservative values of Mississippi," she said.
"Conoley has lost a 14-year veteran of the university who stood up for her principles, while silencing perhaps the most provocative performance of the season," he wrote on the Arts Integrity Initiative website.
Zim in the movie Starship Troopers, but who, on that day, stood up for his rights as a voice actor in popular video games like Call of Duty, God of War, and many others.
" Then, after standing up for attendees at a rally where swastika flags were on full display, he stood up for Confederate monuments: "This week, it is Robert E. Lee and this week, Stonewall Jackson.
" Despite acknowledging the failures in Puerto Rico, Long stood up for his agency's overall response to natural disasters in 20173, stating, "I could care less what the media says or what anybody else says.
A group of Indian nuns stood up for one of their own after she accused a bishop of sexually assaulting her; they forced the church hierarchy and the police to take the crime seriously.
Both Cotton and Perdue, Trump allies in the Senate, also stood up for the president after Durbin said he called African nations "s---hole" countries during one of the immigration meetings earlier this month.
And I think that for China specifically, it&aposs a complex situation, but we haven&apost really stood up for ourselves as a nation in pushing back on all of the complexities of that relationship.
And another from one of Johnny's family members detailing how the video rose in popularity (edited slightly for clarity): This is my wife's little cousin, his father actually stood up for me in our wedding.
The actress, who is pregnant with her second child, not only defended her decision to breast-feed wherever she wants, she also stood up for every mother's approach to the increasingly touchy subject of nursing.
" And in an apparent reference to Trump, who tweeted attacks against Merck's Frazier following his resignation, Krzanich said "We should honor — not attack — those who have stood up for equality and other cherished American values.
Offered a chance to paint Hunter Biden's Ukraine connections as a 2020 liability, Buttigieg took the better political path and stood up for the former vice president and his family — and against President Donald Trump.
"As if most women in America cared about how I was abused by my ex-fiancé...when not one person stood up for me while he was abusing me," she wrote on Instagram in 2017.
All of this has been an effort to turn the remaining team against those who stood up for them, and consequently are no longer at the company and unable to shed light on the truth.
" He added: "While we and many others disagree strongly with the tone and contents of the pastor's remarks, a heartening and broad coalition of groups have stood up for his right to express his views.
The deepest tensions lie around China's slowness to open up its economy, a surge of Chinese takeovers in critical sectors in the EU and an impression that Beijing has not stood up for free trade.
Fox News anchor Shephard Smith closed the Wednesday edition of his daily news show with a reflection on Trump's raucous press conference, his first in six months, and stood up for Acosta and CNN's reporting.
Assuming his comments are not walked back or re-interpreted, Rex Tillerson stood up for what he believed in on the issue of American values, reflecting the tradition and philosophy of his beloved Boy Scouts.
During the "New Low" conversation that broke Bethenny and Ramona's frenemyship for good, when Ramona attempted to use the Skinnygirl mogul's 6-year-old daughter to shame her, Carole stood up for her best friend.
"I have always known Jim Jordan to be honest, and I'm confident he would stand up for his athletes, just like he's always stood up for what's right," Scalise said in a statement Monday afternoon.
"I have always known Jim Jordan to be honest, and I'm confident he would stand up for his athletes, just like he's always stood up for what's right," Scalise said in a statement to CNN.
But the National Rifle Association — whose platform Mike used to make this point — hasn't always stood up for the interests of these gun owners, and that's one reason why Mike's remarks caused so much controversy.
But for now, this reporter appreciates that Twitter has stood up for the privacy of its users and explicitly refuses to allow a Trump administration access to its wide swath of data for surveillance purposes.
They joined a troupe of business owners upheld as Christian martyrs in the nation's culture wars: the cake baker, the florist and the photographers who stood up for their religious beliefs and lost legal battles.
This was not only a legendary player but a man who could speak different languages, a man who stood up for women's sports, and a man with an amazing work ethic like no one else.
"I was raised in the black church, and my momma would probably be rolling over in her grave over how I stood up for reproductive health because I was raised a different way," she said.
"[Jones] has always stood up for justice, and in the Senate he would fight to bring both sides together to discuss the issues that are important to hardworking families," Britton said in a video message.
I mean, these guys are out there in the community doing good work, and the fact of the matter is every single one of those guys stood up for "The National Anthem" each and every game.
" Having Johnny Cash's voice on this new version, Crow says, means the song carries the weight of a man who "stood up for what he believed at a time that what he believed wasn't so popular.
Over the course of Bachelor in Paradise, I fell in love with a different Jade, a humble, soft-spoken girl who stood up for her friends, didn't wear makeup and took a chance on Tanner Tolbert.
She says that she, too, has stood up for Palestinians — but in private negotiations: I'm the person who held the last three meetings between the president of the Palestinian Authority and the prime minister of Israel.
" Dan Lashof, the chief operating officer of renewable-energy advocate NextGen Climate America, said the administration "stood up for a brighter, stronger future powered by clean energy — not dangerous oil rigs off our nation's precious coasts.
A broad coalition of clean water advocates, farmers, mayors, health professionals, small businesses, and tens of thousands of New Yorkers and Americans have stood up for clean water, and now we need Congress to join us.
She stood up for gay people when few others would, and she got right into the nitty-gritty of AIDS policy and fought for the cause, without a moment's hesitation or thought for her own reputation.
"Fred Korematsu stood up for the rights of more than 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II, and continued his fight for decades to expand civil rights and overturn his own false criminal conviction," Hirono said.
" Representative Steve Scalise, the conference's chief whip, declared, "I have always known Jim Jordan to be honest, and I'm confident he would stand up for his athletes, just like he's always stood up for what's right.
"I want to know that when my girls grow up, that they're going to be able to say that their dad made the world better and stood up for what he believed in," he told Holt.
Muhammad Ali's ex-wife -- who was married to him during his Vietnam War protest -- says she wishes LeBron James would have stood up for the people of Hong Kong, because that's what Muhammad would have done.
A Spanish politician boldly stood up for a woman's ability to breastfeed in the workplace Wednesday when she arrived at the first session of parliament for the year with her 5-month-old son in tow.
"These cynical bills were written with one goal in mind: to retaliate against educators and the communities who stood up for public education during the walkouts," said Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers.
While Hadid didn't address the plastic surgery accusations, she stood up for her character with her strong and tough reply, just like her older sis Gigi Hadid recently did to Twitter trolls who commented on her weight.
"Banned from Twitter — this Godfather of the Hipster Movement has taken on and exposed the Deep State Socialists and stood up for Western Values," the club said in an advertisement for the event on its Facebook page.
In a Twitter thread, Facebook's former security chief, Alex Stamos, stood up for his old colleagues here: "I'm glad the NY Times is talking to the incredible people who work on child safety every day," he wrote.
The Supreme Court stood up for the rights of middle-school and high-school students who had been suspended for wearing black armbands to school, an expression of their opposition to America's involvement in the Vietnam War.
"It is up to the press to stand up for themselves, to stand up for the practice of journalism, and to stand up for Chelsea in the same manner she has consistently stood up for the press."
Murkowski, a Slate headline read, had "stood up for womankind over the threats of men"; Bustle, a website for women, instructed readers on how to write letters to Murkowski that would make sure she knew they cared.
Everyone has heard of Hillary's work for the Children's Defense Fund, and how she stood up for women's rights as Secretary of State, but not everyone knows the roots of her commitment: in her law student days.
Woman encounters herself in photos after losing 150 pounds "Thank you to everyone who stood up for curves -- our voices were heard and together we can help me win Rookie of the Year," she wrote on Instagram.
" ""I never really stood up for myself because I just wanted to make it through" A former student in the department attempted to explain how these sexist behaviors and attitudes were able to persist for so long.
Many South Africans have stood up for Madikizela-Mandela's memory against critics who have characterized her as a problematic figure who was implicated in political violence after she returned from years of banishment in a rural town.
Oprah, who attended Harry and Markle's wedding and stood up for Markle after she was badmouthed in the press, last year announced she would be co-producing a mental health documentary series with Prince Harry for Apple.
Though the actress and now-Goop CEO has often been mocked for the move in the years since, Watts stood up for her friend and pointed out how much former couples with children are following in her footsteps.
Following the competition, McPhail told reporters that while everyone is "entitled to your own opinion" about the polarizing protest movement, she felt proud to have "stood up for what I believed was right," according to the Associated Press.
You could interpret the scene in two ways: That Tyler took down the photo because Alex had stood up for him against another bully... or that Tyler removed the picture because he was going after Alex first. Chilling?
Orban pursued a strident anti-immigration campaign ahead of April elections where he was reelected by a landslide, with many voters in rural Hungary feeling Orban stood up for national interests when he rejected the EU's migration policies.
Later, in his photography studio, Tyler examines the pictures he has taken of those who were cruel to him, only removing Alex's (Miles Heizer) photo upon remembering a time the musician stood up for Tyler in the hallway.
"With the (attempted) putsch, we saw how the Turkish people stood up for democracy and for the rules of democracy," Merkel told a news conference, when asked about concern over proposed constitutional changes that would strengthen Erdogan's powers.
I didn't get to go home, despite having literally just been assaulted, and although I'd like to say I stood up for myself, I did what I always did after those kinds of situations: cried while folding jeans.
"  He gave a rallying cry for Americans "to vote, to speak out, to stand up for others, especially the weak, especially the vulnerable, knowing that each of us is only here because somebody, somewhere, stood up for us.
Although the arriving officers stood up for Hayes, it speaks volumes that the white woman felt empowered to continue demanding that he "just hurry up and finish" and that she expected the police to be on her side.
Like Andy and Michael — two of many white allies who stood up for their black brothers and sisters in the 1960s — we must stand for all those who are being oppressed by the racist white power structure today.
" For her part, Hillary Clinton needled Pence for his sidelining of Trump in a tweet post-debate: "Lucky to have a partner like @TimKaine who stood up for our shared vision tonight — instead of trying to deny it.
"In the 1990s, feminists stood up for accused abuser Bill Clinton instead of his ­accusers—a move many are belatedly regretting as the national conversation prompts a re-evaluation of the claims against the former President," Time wrote.
"Of course, I want to know that when my girls grow up, that they're going to be able to say that their dad made the world better and stood up for what he believed in," he told Holt.
Listening to Malala Yousafzai narrate her book, I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban, has so much more impact hearing it directly from the Nobel Peace Prize winner herself.
In what is sure to one day become a treasured courtroom drama, in 2014 House Republicans stood up for what they believed in and sued the Obama administration to end this practice of helping people when they're sick.
"Hell TF NO." By responding to this tweet, Love not only stood up for herself but also shut down harmful stereotypes about transgender women, like the idea that transgender people are duplicitous and manipulative and "pretending" to be cisgender.
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban  Malala Yousafzai, with Christina Lamb  Malala Yousafzai has fearlessly advocated for girls' education for years, even after she was shot by the Taliban.
"I'm supporting Doug Jones because he has always stood up for justice, and in the Senate he would fight to bring both sides together to discuss the issues that are important to hardworking families," Britton said in the video.
Unlike Mr. Trump, whose misogyny has long been part of his celebrity persona and whose political platform is hostile to women's rights, Mr. Schneiderman was, by appearances, a dedicated public servant who stood up for minorities and the underprivileged.
In the Senate, Mr. Franken has stood up for liberal causes and, early in the Trump administration, proved himself an incisive examiner in confirmation hearings, particularly those of Betsy DeVos for education secretary and Jeff Sessions as attorney general.
" Bharara added that "the court stood up for common sense and affirmed what we have been arguing from the outset - that the law absolutely prohibits insiders from advantaging their friends and relatives at the expense of the trading public.
"Please explain to me how it serves the cause of women to kneecap a senator who has consistently stood up for the economic and human rights of women since the time that Elizabeth Warren was a Republican," Ball said.
The same goes for Grassley and Ernst, who stood up for whistleblowers amid Trump's attacks on the official who filed the initial complaint about the phone call in which Trump asked the Ukrainian president to probe the Biden family.
"Weve long stood up for our company values and used our tools as a business including monetary expenditure and our social media presence to support driving the change we hope to see in the world," Tandan said in an email.
"It is unacceptable that populist governments represented in the Council rule out the best candidate only because he has stood up for the rule of law and for our shared European values," she said, referring to Poland, Hungary and Italy.
Flake stood up for his fellow Arizona lawmaker by introducing himself to Trump as "the other senator from Arizona, the one who didn't get captured," referring to Trump's criticism of McCain's time as a prisoner of war during the Vietnam War.
Among the series' biggest revelations about each of the royal wives: Divorced: Catherine of Aragon At her divorce trial in London, Henry's first wife, Catherine of Aragon,  stood up for herself against the might of the crown and the establishment.
While at USC, when other notable black athletes stood up for civil rights in 1968, Simpson demurred, saying in interviews that it was more important to push ahead with his own goals—that same year he won the Heisman Trophy.
Although the former pair, both 40, have remained cordial following their split — Vanessa publicly stood up for Don Jr.'s new girlfriend Kimberly Guilfoyle — their divorce was listed as contested in July despite previously being uncontested, according to the Associated Press.
Rather than shrink in shame, as caught on video, Hage stood up for herself by confronting the man and pointing out that his actions were hurtful and that his judgments of her size were based on fat bias not facts.
If Trump and his corporate allies want to launch this attack on frontline communities, they should know one thing: The people stood up for their rights before — with picketing, with leafleting, with demonstrating — and they're not afraid to do it again.
"America is a beacon of justice and opportunity and today we stood up for the young immigrants who seek both," Ms. Napolitano said on Tuesday in Washington, where she was joined by undocumented students from the university, as well as professors.
He also took on a cable company he said was leveraging its exclusive territory to muscle into the home security market and stood up for the mentally ill when a homeowners association feared ex-hospital patients would reduce property values.
Frydman had stood up for Giuliani as recently as 2018, when he wrote in the New York Daily News that Giuliani's fierce advocacy for Trump reflected "his instinctive hardball personality," but he said Monday that the Ukraine scandal had swayed him.
"We've always, dating back to forever, been a team that stood up for itself and fought hard for what it felt it deserved and tried to leave the game in a better place," Rapinoe told The New York Times on Friday.
"The court stood up for common sense and affirmed what we have been arguing from the outset — that the law absolutely prohibits insiders from advantaging their friends and relatives at the expense of the trading public," he said in a statement.
Bloomberg stood up for his use of his resources in response to Warren at his first campaign event Monday, saying, "For years I've been using my resources for the things that matter to me," according to a transcript from his campaign.
A moment of weakness makes Putin look strong in Helsinki When Trump stood next to Putin on July 16, he could have stood up for US intelligence officials, who have long unanimously said Russia actively interfered in the 2016 US election.
Airbnb said it stood up for property owners Tuesday's referendum was widely seen as blow to Airbnb, which had mounted a multimillion-dollar campaign to oppose the measure through an organization called Keep Our Homes, according to The New York Times.
" Throughout the story, Alma's father tells her about each family member who inspired her name -- including the scene Martinez-Neal says she added after the election, a grandmother depicted marching in a protest who "always stood up for what is right.
He would say that he was not a politician and was returning to the people after having drained the swamp of Washington, DC. He would say that he had stood up for the forgotten men and women of our country.
The EU is already weighing a more defensive strategy on China, spurred by Beijing's slowness in opening up its economy, Chinese takeovers in critical sectors, and a feeling in European capitals that Beijing has not stood up for free trade.
"We've long stood up for our company values and used our tools as a business – including monetary expenditure and our social media presence – to support driving the change we hope to see in the world," Tandan said in an email.
As someone who's seen my own rights up for debate in the Supreme Court, I'm motivated by the fact that people who aren't like me stood up for people who are like me and I want to make sure I'm doing the same.
He was on the July 25 call between Trump and Zelensky He is theoretically overseeing US foreign policy with regard to Ukraine And yet, despite criticism that he hasn't stood up for State Department employees, Pompeo has remained something of a bit player.
"Jessica stood up for Octavia and I want you to know because they stood together, they got three times what they were asking for as a unit," she said during a panel at the Sundance Film Festival, according to the Associated Press.
The host's comments came after the Trump aide insisted that the president did not cave on his demands for border wall funding but instead "stood up for the American people" on Friday by agreeing to fully reopen the government for three weeks.
"Motivated by a nationalist attitude, he planned to carry out an attack at an unknown time on high-ranking politicians and public figures who stood up for what the accused regarded as an especially refugee-friendly policy," the federal prosecutor's office said.
" Mr. Paez-Pumar said the staff resigned "knowing that we stood up for what we believed in, and what we believed was both horrible treatment of the site and its history, but also specifically of Barry, who is the site and its history.
Growing up I remember my two sisters and I would go red with embarrassment when she complained in hotels or restaurants, when she stood up for us at school, when she argued with the TV, and called the BBC make an official complaint.
A black R & B musician named Daryl Davis stood up for him in court, paid his bail, and made an offer to the judge: he wanted to take Preston to the National African American History Museum in an effort to reeducate him.
This is the tyrannical regime that killed my aunt because she stood up for the rights of Honduran people — rights that include the most fundamental one we in the United States enjoy, the right to choose our elected leaders and hold them accountable.
In April, a Delta Air Lines employee threatened a California family with jail time over a seat dispute, and an American Airlines flight attendant was caught on video challenging a passenger to a fight after he stood up for another intimidated passenger.
"He said, 'Randy, if we stand up for what we know to be moral and correct — if 100,000 people decide they will not go to a Diamondbacks game, we've stood up for the right thing,'" Kendrick said in an interview with Bloomberg.
" But the lieutenant governor, who last week dismissed the first allegation against him as a "smear," said in an interview published Monday that he wanted Americans to know him as someone who had "stood up for women and survivors to be heard.
"He's consistently stood up for the rights of migrant workers in Thailand and that has earned him plenty of enemies among political and business elites who are not amused at people examining the way workers are treated in their supply chain," Robertson told VICE News.
"We are thankful for the members of the General Assembly who stood up for what is right, and represented the will of voters by stopping the move to cower and cave in to the city of Charlotte and the Human Rights Campaign," the group said.
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For decades Mr Young has stood up for the land: an activist for farmers and native-American land rights, last year supporting an Apache tribe in Arizona when a stretch of the desert they call home was handed by lawmakers to a copper-mining company.
We are pro-life because we believe in the defense of all innocent human life, and we are Democrats because they are the party that, since the New Deal, has best stood up for the well-being of working-class and middle-class Americans.
And then Sunday in Washington, as Jefferson stood up for a locker-room interview, Plum teased her 5'6" teammate about trying to appear taller before both women collapsed into laughter over the idea that either one (Plum is 5'13") could appear large in stature.
And in Arizona, Republican Representative Eddie Farnsworth stood up for his state and passed legislation that, in part, prohibits Arizona's property from being referred to the federal government for forfeiture unless the federal government was involved or a violation of a federal law is alleged.
Obviously Tulsi has made bucking the foreign policy status quo the signature of her campaign, but in my eyes the most telling moment of the night came when Bernie--of his own volition-- stood up for the dignity and human rights of Palestinians. Rep.
This was already an issue several years ago when the bank came under fire from Wolfgang Schaeuble, then Germany's finance minister, who only toned down his criticism of ultra-easy monetary policy after the Bundesbank itself stood up for the independence of the ECB.
I told him that I didn't start the fight and was just sticking up for a friend, so he stood up for me, but the head teacher told him that she didn't think it was safe for me to come back to the school.
"In its swiftly decided opinion, the Court stood up for common sense and affirmed what we have been arguing from the outset — that the law absolutely prohibits insiders from advantaging their friends and relatives at the expense of the trading public," he said in a statement.
"At the end nothing happened to me, 30 years later I'm still here, but I was one of the ones who stood up for herself at that time without caring about losing my job and we have to remember that today," she said in the moving speech.
She's made fighting Trump the central core of her message, and she has the chops needed to take on powerful men, having stood up for sexual assault victims when it wasn't politically expedient, most notably Al Franken, for which she has taken undue amounts of flak.
Regardless, Theon flops onto the beach in a state of euphoria because he finally stood up for something, and also — just lying there counting his blessings — it's nice that the Game of Thrones showrunners never had him lose as many teeth as he did in the books.
Even after Biden questioned Buttigieg's readiness to take on the role of president, the former South Bend mayor stood up for his son Hunter, whom Trump has attacked for his role as a board member on a Ukrainian gas company while his father was the vice president.
He was also known for his fierce loyalty to Baltimore and its residents, and he stood up for them when, in July, Mr. Trump derided Mr. Cummings's majority-black Baltimore district as "a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess" where "no human being" would want to live.
"I believe each of us stood up for the reasons that we felt were right, and are hoping that our colleagues also respect our reasons for the opposition just as I respect the incredible, extraordinary work that they put into trying to finish the product," Murkowski said.
The meeting comes at a time when the EU is weighing a more defensive strategy on China, spurred by China's slowness to open up its economy, Chinese takeovers in critical sectors and a feeling in European capitals that Beijing has not stood up for free trade.
"NAFDAC has failed the citizens of this great nation by its certification as satisfactory for human consumption products (…) which become poisonous in the presence of ascorbic acid [Vitamin C]." Judge Oyebanji also stood up for the inalienable human right for all to enjoy soda, free of discrimination.
"Bob Dold has stood up for the right of LGBT Americans to live their lives free from fear of discrimination, and he demonstrated true leadership by becoming the first House Republican to sign on as a co-sponsor of the Equality Act," Griffen said in another statement.
"All over the country, people who are sick and tired of having our health and our future threatened by dirty coal have stood up for their health and the future of their communities and won," Michael Brune, executive director of the Sierra Club, said in a statement.
Now that both the House and Senate appropriations bills for the State and Foreign Operations and Related Programs subcommittees have been marked up, it is clear that Congress has stood up for the world's poorest and committed to increase funding for programs tackling our world's greatest challenges.
For PEOPLE's Kindness Issue, Monica Lewinsky, who re-emerged as an anti-bullying activist years after the Bill Clinton scandal, writes about the hero who stood up for her five years ago when others turned away and how he inspired her to stand up for others.
And the American Civil Liberties Union said that "it is unacceptable and un-American for the president to expel a reporter for doing his job aggressively," and even Jeb Bush, who lost the Republican presidential nomination to Mr. Trump in 2016, stood up for the news media.
"In naming these spiders … the students and I wanted to honor people who stood up for both human rights and warned about climate change — leaders and artists who promoted sensible approaches for a better world," University of Vermont professor Ingi Agnarsson said, according to Sci-News.
Ronald Reagan campaigned against federal fair housing legislation in California ("if an individual wants to discriminate against Negroes or others in selling or renting his house, it is his right to do so") and stood up for South Africa's apartheid government against its critics in Congress.
"Brave Muslim communities stood up for their rights and a federal court heard them, forcing the NYPD to provide mild but important improvements," said Iman Boukadoum, a member of the Arab American Bar Association and a pro bono immigration lawyer at the law firm at the Hussain and Khan.
"I think Finn definitely stood up for himself at the end of Force Awakens and caught a bit of an injury to the back, so he's in recovery but he will be back in the Last Jedi and he's not playing this time," the actor revealed to mass applause.
Though some students doubted the effectiveness of the walkouts, Sydney G. from New York thought they had the potential to make a difference: I think that it was very important that us children, the future of our world went out and stood up for something that we believe in.
And that is a nation that at its best has always stood up for the universal values of freedom and human rights, has always paid extra to stabilize the global system from which we were the biggest beneficiary and has always nurtured and protected alliances with like-minded nations.
Descended from immigrants who fled injustice, Jews of varying religious traditions have stood up for the underdog and voted for liberal Democrats since before the New Deal, in part because Democrats catered to immigrants' concerns and because anti-Semitism has been associated more with the right than the left.
Barrasso applauded Pruitt's work against Obama's EPA, saying he "stood up for Oklahomans against the EPA's extreme regulations on greenhouse gasses, methane emissions, and cross state air pollution," as well as challenging "unworkable" water rules and fighting Obama's interpretations of the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act.
While Green and his colleagues appear to have been unaware of it at the time, the Green Books show how black America became increasingly willing to call out discrimination where they saw it — and to stand up to it — in the years before federal law stood up for them.
When Democrats whose votes the President needs knock back his immigration program -- perhaps because it doesn't shield Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program recipients -- Trump can boast to supporters that he stood up for strong borders and merit-based visas, core aspirations of his political base and conservative immigration advocates.
A bunch of highlights: Some people are mad that Madonna made her tribute to Aretha Franklin about herself; Ariana Grande brought her mom and grandma onstage, which is adorable; Tiffany Haddish shaded Fifth Harmony, so Nicki Minaj stood up for Normani; Teyana Taylor has more abs than I can count.
But the story of guns and gun ownership has been sold as a fixed and classic clash between conservatives and liberals — one in which liberal, racially diverse voters in urban areas have always favored gun control, and white, NRA-supporting conservatives in rural areas have always stood up for gun rights.
"The European Parliament rightly stood up for the Hungarian people and for the EU. They made it clear that human rights, the rule of law and democratic values are not up for negotiation," said Berber Biala-Hettinga, an expert on human rights in the EU, in a statement from the group.
"Joe tried time and again to work with Republicans to craft a tax bill that overwhelmingly helps working families and encourages companies to bring jobs back from foreign countries, but when Republicans crafted a purely partisan bill that does neither, Joe stood up for Indiana," said communications director Will Baskin-Gerwitz.
When he called out our NATO partners for not paying their fair share, he stood up for the American taxpayer, forcing our European allies to show the rest of the world a greater commitment to their own defense, thereby reunifying our allies and putting an unprecedented amount of pressure on Russia.
For a long time, Louis C.K. was able to redirect questions about his behavior to his work, to the version of himself he chose to portray — someone who was messed-up and compulsive, but also unrepentant, even brave in the way he stood up for his own darkness and other people's.
"Kim knows he stood up for his friend, and hard, but says he wonders today "if there was something more he could have done" in terms of taking a more extreme measure, like "refusing to go outside to clear his weapon or threatening to report the PA to his superiors.
" The NC Values Coalition said the legislature got it right: "We are thankful for the members of the General Assembly who stood up for what is right, and represented the will of voters by stopping the move to cower and cave in to the city of Charlotte and the Human Rights Campaign.
At yet another panel at Sundance, Jada Pinkett Smith relaid the same story, adding a call to action: "Jessica stood up for Octavia and I want you to know because they stood together, they got three times what they were asking for as a unit," she said, as per The Tampa Bay Times.
To me, this is bigger than football and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way," Kaepernick told NFL Media's Steve Wyche in 2016, adding that even if he lost endorsements or lost his career as a player, "I know that I stood up for what is right.
In an interview this week, Ms. Kenny, now 18, described her turmoil as she was handcuffed at school and taken in a paddy wagon to spend several hours at an adult detention center where she was fingerprinted and had a mug shot taken — all, she said, because she stood up for her classmate.
He also stood up for criminal defendants in ways that counted, voting to strike down the death penalty for people who commit crimes as juveniles or are intellectually disabled, ordering California to address the terrible overcrowding in its prisons, and suggesting that he had serious doubts about the constitutionality of prolonged solitary confinement.
Eminem unleashes on Trump: The 11 fiercest lines "At the end of the day, if I did lose half my fan base, then so be it, because I feel like I stood up for what was right and I'm on the right side of this," he told Billboard in an interview posted Thursday.
Second, and much more important, if she wins it will be thanks to Americans who stood up for our nation's principles — who waited for hours on voting lines contrived to discourage them, who paid attention to the true stakes in this election rather than letting themselves be distracted by fake scandals and media noise.
And even when the president of these United States of America said we live in the most wicked city with [a] tremendous amount of crime, our mayor stood up for our city and in the spirit of Bishop Richard Allen, he challenged President Trump by speaking truth to power saying we deserve better from our commander and chief!
And Superman has always stood up for the justice of all Americans, as he did in this 1950s poster: "If you hear anybody talk against a schoolmate or anyone else because of his religion, race or national origin — don't wait: tell him that kind of talk is un-American," Superman says in the scene on the poster.
The irresistible plot turned the major in charge of the company (Marvin) into a sneerer at fatuous military authority and a harsh disciplinarian who nonetheless stood up for every man in his charge; the criminals, more eccentrics than psychopaths, turn out to be heroes when they blow up their target, a luxurious rest house for German officers.
"I realized that when I spoke out in my small case of being called Climate Barbie — when I did it I felt better, but I also saw that so many other people stood up for me and they also felt empowered," Ms. McKenna said in an interview outside of a concert venue at the end of the march.
You'll read about Scott Joplin, the pianist and ragtime master who wrote "The Entertainer"; Gladys Bentley, the gender-bending blues singer who became 1920s Harlem royalty; Elizabeth Jennings, who stood up for civil rights when she sat down on a whites-only streetcar; and Major Taylor, the first black man to win a world championship in cycling.
"He has advocated and stood up for the profits of business, be it the poultry companies or the energy industry and other polluters, at the expense of people who have to drink the water or breathe the air," said Mark Derichsweiler, who led the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality division responsible for overseeing the poultry-related cleanup.
After the world of celebrity journalism concludes this very important investigative work, the feminism-lite online world maintains clickbaity lists of 33 Celebrities Who Stood Up for Feminism and 17 Celebrities Who Are Wrong About Feminism and 22 Celebrities Who Have Cellulite … oh, I guess that last one isn't relevant, although it contains a lot of the same names.
" In a nod to the protesters who challenged the white supremacists as well as to Kenneth C. Frazier, the chief executive of Merck, who quit the council early on Monday in protest of Mr. Trump's actions, Mr. Krzanich added, "We should honor – not attack – those who have stood up for equality and other cherished American values.
Six months into his first term, President Obama — answering a shouted question at a White House news conference — stood up for Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. of Harvard after the African-American legal scholar and racial commentator was briefly arrested for disorderly conduct after trying to open the jammed lock on his own front door in Cambridge, Mass.
We have espoused unpopular causes, stood up for those too feeble to stand up for themselves, locked horns with the high and mighty so swollen with power that they have forgotten their roots, exposed corruption and the waste of your hard-earned tax rupees, and made sure that whatever the propaganda of the day, you were allowed to hear a contrary view.
Quioh: We get emails all the time from people who say, "Hey, I learned from your podcast, and I talked to someone in my life about it," or "I used something I learned in a class I'm teaching," or, "I stood up for a fat friend after listening to this," and that really makes it all worth it for me.
"I'm grateful to everyone who brought light into it: activists who protected kids at the border, journalists who stood up for truth, organizers who mobilized voters for the 6900 elections, candidates who ran races with grit and inspiration, voters who made their voices heard, and absolutely everyone who marched, donated, called, and protested to fight for the values we share," she wrote.
As it ends, I'm grateful to everyone who brought light into it: activists who protected kids at the border, journalists who stood up for truth, organizers who mobilized voters for the 2018 elections, candidates who ran races with grit and inspiration, voters who made their voices heard, and absolutely everyone who marched, donated, called, and protested to fight for the values we share.
In fresh tweets Thursday morning, Donald Trump, a life-long New Yorker with no personal or familial connection whatsoever to the Confederate States of America, once again stood up for the principle that honoring the leaders of a 19th century rebellion whose goal was to entrench the institution of chattel slavery is similar to honoring the founders of the United States of America.
Bernhardt, you came to my office to tell me that you were the guy who stood up for ethics in the George W. Bush administration," he said, noting that Mr. Bernhardt claimed that he had told Julie MacDonald, a Bush administration official who resigned over revelations that she had interfered with the scientific findings of federal biologists, to "clean up her act.
Judge Judith Rogers, nominated by former President Bill ClintonWilliam (Bill) Jefferson Clinton85033 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 2020 Buckingham Palace: Any suggestion Prince Andrew was involved in Epstein scandal 'abhorrent' The magic of majority rule in elections MORE, spoke less frequently, but also stood up for the right of a new president to take a different approach.
But he laid bare disagreements between the two men when he said it was imperative to stop the "tremendous outflow" of jobs from the United States over the southern border, and that NAFTA had benefited Mexico more than the US. And he stood up for America's right to build a "physical barrier or wall" on its territory to stop illegal immigration and drug traffickers.
Aaron is deeply appreciative [of Troy] for taking care of me for all of those years and for being someone that stood up for me in a time in my life when I didn't really have people showing up for me… He's really proud that I was able to give tribute to my ex … Sometimes first love is such a pivotal, influential relationship and challenges us.
The more tales Ms. Mayet tells, the more we get a sense of her personal history — how it felt to move at 8 to a small, almost entirely white Illinois town, where a little boy told her to go back to Africa (she stood up for herself; they became friends), and where the children on her first day of school whispered a racial slur about her.
"I'm also reminded that I have to speak up and speak out in God's name and in the name of my family to protect what little dignity we have left and to possibly redeem the situation for our family so that, going forward, they can say there was a Lee who stood up for what's right instead of standing up for the wrong side of history," he said.
So, my fellow Americans, whatever you may believe, whether you prefer one party or no party, whether you supported my agenda or fought as hard as you could against it, our collective futures depends on your willingness to uphold your duties as a citizen, to vote, to speak out, to stand up for others, especially the weak, especially the vulnerable, knowing that each of us is only here because somebody somewhere stood up for us.
"The state Senate is trying for a second time this year to ram through a so-called education bill that defunds public education, retaliates against teachers who stood up for their students last year, and appears to be driven by outside wealthy interests like Americans for Prosperity that, like [Education Secretary] Betsy DeVos, want to eliminate public schools," said Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, in a statement Monday.
I've stood up for the first time and now for the last six years we've de-funded Planned Parenthood, not talked about it like they do in Washington D.C. But for six years as governor, Planned Parenthood does not receive that funding from the state budget anymore; over $50 million worth of money that's been saved now, that is not going to do exactly what Hillary Clinton wants to have done and has advocated for.
Still, in a week in which England football fans have been filmed throwing coins at child refugees in France and on the day in which Nigel Farage stood in front of billboards showing lines of non-white refugees in a seemingly fascist attempt to stir up the hatreds of the nation, it is shocking enough that a British public servant who stood up for the world's most marginalized people has been killed in cold blood.
He pulled the nation out of a great recession His signature domestic achievement -- Obamacare -- may be in grave danger, but what it's replaced with will still contain many elements of his vision for health care He stood up for the rights of the LGBT community He sounded the alarm on climate change He offered a different perspective in the nation's long-running conversation on race And he gave the order to kill Osama bin Laden But there was more to the Obama presidency than all of that.
Noting that Chief Justice Warren Burger, who wrote the ruling, had been appointed by President Nixon, Judge Kavanaugh said he thought the Watergate tapes ruling was "one of the greatest moments" in the Supreme Court's history because it stood up for judicial independence in the face of political pressure, but how that precedent "would apply to other hypotheticals" — like whether a subpoena for presidential testimony in a criminal investigation should also be upheld — was something he should not address, citing the practice of previous Supreme Court nominees.
And we were right when we showed this nation true leadership and passed marriage equality; and we were right when we stood up for the women of this state and we passed the Women's Equality Act; and we were right when we passed the most aggressive law stopping sexual violence on college campuses in the nation; and we were right when we stopped fingerprinting for food; and we were right when we led the way on climate change; and we were right when we stopped discrimination based on sexual identity; and we were right when we passed common-sense gun safety laws.

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