CURATED COLLECTION

Standing Up for What You Believe

Conviction without action is just opinion — on the cost and the necessity of taking a stand.

50 quotes found

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Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform.

—Susan B. AnthonyReformer

Industrial Age ERA • North America

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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what has been proved.

—Galileo GalileiAstronomer, Physicist & Mathematician

Renaissance ERA • Southern Europe

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To be a great champion, you must believe you are the best. If you're not, pretend you are.

—Muhammad AliBoxer & Activist

Post-War ERA • North America

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If you believe in living a respectable life, you believe in self‑help, which is the best help.

—B.R. AmbedkarJurist, Economist & Reformer

Early Modern ERA • South Asia

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I would rather be a bad feminist than no feminist at all.

—Roxane GayWriter, Editor & Critic

Digital Age ERA • North America

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Is it true that the bravery of Ashanti is no more? I cannot believe it.

—Yaa AsantewaaQueen

Industrial Age ERA • West Africa

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It is in the nature of a king to be attacked. But it is in the nature of the lion to endure.

—Sundiata KeitaKing

Medieval ERA • West Africa

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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

—Galileo GalileiAstronomer, Physicist & Mathematician

Renaissance ERA • Southern Europe

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Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights.

—Bob MarleyMusician

Post-War ERA • Caribbean

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The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

—Harper LeeNovelist

Post-War ERA • North America

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There was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.

—Harriet TubmanAbolitionist & Activist

Industrial Age ERA • North America

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There are many causes that I am prepared to die for, but no causes that I am prepared to kill for.

—Mahatma GandhiLawyer

Early Modern ERA • South Asia

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Finding your voice means owning your unique truth, speaking it without apology or fear.

—Judith Ortiz CoferWriter

Late Modern ERA • Caribbean

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A man who has the power to act and will not, is not a man.

—ThucydidesGeneral & Historian

Ancient World ERA • Southern Europe

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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

—Bertrand RussellPhilosopher, Mathematician & Intellectual

Early Modern ERA • Western Europe

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The artist must possess the courageous soul that dares to look the world in the face and say, 'This I am.'

—Kate ChopinAuthor

Industrial Age ERA • North America

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The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

—Alice WalkerNovelist, Poet & Activist

Late Modern ERA • North America

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I would rather die free than live as a slave.

—Samori TouréEmperor

Industrial Age ERA • West Africa

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We will not allow this land to be taken from us without a fight.

—Mekatilili wa MenzaActivist

Industrial Age ERA • East Africa

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Words are free, it's how you use them that may cost you.

—Abiodun OyewolePoet

Post-War ERA • North America

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