Winston Churchill
Politician, Writer, Historian
"If you don't have any enemies in life you have never stood up for anything."
Stood Up quotes
Stood Up
20 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Malala Yousafzai
Activist, Author
"I don't want to be remembered as the girl who was shot. I want to be remembered as the girl who stood up."
Mao Zedong
Politician, Revolutionary
"The Chinese people have stood up."
Coco Chanel
Fashion Designer
"I stood up for myself as I always have done. Nobody has ever told Coco Chanel what to think."
Ruth Brown
Singer
"When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause."
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"To begin with, I wanted that truth to life to possess a concrete reliability, and rejoiced most when the poem seemed most direct, an upfront representation of the world it stood in for or stood up for or stood its ground against."
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"The lie was dead And damned, and truth stood up instead."
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