Sentences with phrase «people speak up for»

Many people speak up for the disabled, abused and underprivileged.

Hence, even though I know I sounded rude earlier, I think this needs repeating: people speaking up for abuse survivors are great.

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While that was the theme of the evening, with most celebrities wearing black in solidarity with the Time's Up movement and speaking about the issues, Winfrey's rousing message celebrated the people who've fought for women and marked the beginning of a new era.

• Speaking of Time's Up... Attorney Tina Tchen, who Bloomberg describes as «arguably the most well - connected person working in women's rights today, thanks to her six years as an assistant to President Barack Obama and as first lady Michelle Obama's chief of staff,» talks about why it was so important that Time's Up include a legal defense fund: «The fastest way to make sure that someone isn't getting bullied by a lawyer for someone rich and powerful is to make sure that person has a lawyer, too.»

As Recode's Kara Swisher noted when writing up her interview: «Note to Mark: You are the right and only person to speak for Facebook at this point in the controversy.»

When I came up with the idea for my first book, 101 Ways to Market Your Business, I spoke to a number of people in marketing about it.

For people to do their very best work, they need an organizational environment that supports them by making it safe to take risks, to tell the truth, and to speak up... without being punished for doing For people to do their very best work, they need an organizational environment that supports them by making it safe to take risks, to tell the truth, and to speak up... without being punished for doing for doing so.

Instead of waiting long periods of time for the next person to speak up, everyone will be prepared to talk through ideas and you'll have a much greater chance of deciding the best course of action that same day.

He ultimately changed the name to Aloha Leadership, donned khakis and colorful shirts for his speaking engagements, and stopped carrying business cards because «with what I do it's important to follow up with people in a more personal way.»

So now is the time for all good people, who agree that these senseless killings must end, to stand up, speak out loudly and clearly.

On behalf of all the people who want to speak up but can't: Please, make Amazon a more hospitable place for women and parents.

People who have been fighting for this for too long, others who were never comfortable enough to openly talk about their experiences with gun violence, or still others who were never listened to when opening up about their experiences with gun violence or were afraid to speak out — these are the people we are fighting with anPeople who have been fighting for this for too long, others who were never comfortable enough to openly talk about their experiences with gun violence, or still others who were never listened to when opening up about their experiences with gun violence or were afraid to speak out — these are the people we are fighting with anpeople we are fighting with and for.

People may chuckle over misbehavior rather than calling it out, for example, or they may ostracize harassed women, privately ashamed of not having spoken up.

People like me who speak up aren't wishing for a massive reckoning.

Ray Dalio makes the business case for using radical transparency and algorithmic decision - making to create an idea meritocracy where people can speak up and say what they really think — even calling out the boss is fair game.

As it turned out, only nine Courtenay - Comox votes — quite possibly from the very people we spoke with on those door steps, and almost certainly from some of those first - time voters we signed - up — currently make up the difference between another Christy Clark Big Money majority and the chance for a fresh start in B.C. politics.

The people of the US have spoken and now it's time for people like Limbaugh to sit down and shut up.

So, by your reasoning, if «People put so much importance on words» (implying that they don't matter and we shouldn't take thought of how we use them) then I ought to be able to sing along with the lyrics from pac's «hit»em up» with my black friends, curse in a kindergarten class as well as a corporate meeting for my boss... what impression would a client have of my boss if I were cussing in a professional meeting or at a charity event... it doesn't add up, it's a cop - out rebuttal... trying to find loopholes or applying «human reasoning» like» ll take a swearing guy who's helpful» doesn't change Jesus or scripture it's just setting up a what - if scenario and trying to allow that to in some way justify your stance when again, that doesn't change The Holy Spirit or His heart in those who have been born again... the verses (inspired by His own Spirit) speak for themselves.

People like Santorum remind me of the Pharasees who were careful to show up in the temple full of pride and self righteous indignation for anyone who dared to question their rigid ideology yet never took one step towards bettering conditions in their society or spoke out against social and economic injustice.

Instead of looking down on people with drug addiction or saying there is no hope for them, let's build them up and speak life.

And just so you know, the fact that more and more people like you feel the need to speak up with your hatred of all things biblical or Christian, makes people like me very happy because it tells us that the very book, the Bible, that you diss, is absolutely right because it has been warning us for hundreds of years that thoughts like yours will increase.

Victoria Prentis, Conservative MP for Oxford North, was speaking as the war reaches a climax, with reports up to 100,000 people remain trapped in the city of Aleppo after the Syrian government, backed by Russia, virtually recaptured it on Tuesday.

In fact such leadership might free the group up — allow them to stop constantly be looking inwards to their own structures and face out to the world that needs people with the balls to speak out for injustice.

The people were forced to hear the stupid stories for so many centuries, and anybody who spoke up and said «that's ridiculous» got their head hacked off, that finally the people didn't know any better, and thought they were real.

Any time I get up to speak, he always comes through, and if you trust God he can even cause you to have favour and for people to like you, even when there is no reason for them to.

If you were a real Christian you would know Christs words speak for themselves and the fact that he didn't take the sword away and turn it into a pruning shear right then and there does not mean he was saying «I mean all this stuff is for later after I come back and kill all the evil people and those who haven't accepted me as their savior so you won't have to fear anyone so you can finally give up your guns and weapons of war...» You disgust me chad.

In my own case (and in no way am I saying that this is true for Julie or any other person who has been hushed up, tangled up or fucked up by an abusive system or a specific person), as I spoke my truth out loud to trusted friends and even a few strangers and unwitting passersby and heard their responses, I realized that I had formerly seen only part of the truth.

And I speak and have helped with organizing Christianity21 — a conference Tony runs — because I hope to help create a place where people from diverse Christian camps — such as Tony (who came from the Congregational Church and now blogs for a progressive platform) and me (who grew up in the Southern Baptist tradition who identifies as a moderate) can come and share ideas and interact respectfully.

But there were also potentially smaller - scale, more personal kinds of possibilities for why people often don't speak up (or do, but get quickly silenced) about what seems clearly off - base.

No it has not been proven where did you see that on an alien special on a & e, Read up on it those other religions did not have Jesus as a Savior and did not have men writing 1000s of years apart talking about the same events, and phrophecizing about things that happened in later chapters written hundreds of years later... and in no bok any where was there a man like Jesus, who spoke the words that Jesus spoke and died for people who hated Him like Jesus did, and spoke the parabales and life lessons like Jesus did... look at what Jesus spoke... read it nowhere has there been a better teacher of life then in His words.

There are certainly times in which people being oppressed or marginalized need someone to speak up for them.

We seem to do that to everyone; we even speak up for the blind, I've noticed, and for people whose English is a second language.

He spoke also this parable to certain people, who were convinced they were right and all others were wrong «Two men went up onto a blog for a discussion...

I can understand the idea of a party as a unifier and people can group together, but the way parties are set up now, it just fuels fringe elements who don't speak for the moderates who are forced to affiliate with one of two parties in order to feel at least sort of relevant.

And I speak up when a few vocal evangelical leaders say hateful things about LGBT people or encourage bullying or condone misogyny because I feel like I have this investment in the community and it's important for those invested in the community to speak up when its leaders are hurting our witness to the world... But I'm not sure I can do that anymore.

According to the lawsuit, filed in the San Francisco Superior Court, Spanish - speaking employees would go to places where they know immigrants would be, like construction sites and a 7 - Eleven, and would take them to a branch, have them open up a new account and would often pay the person $ 10 for opening the account.

Canon Harper also told the newspaper some of her parishioners support her view: «I thought people would be furious with me for speaking in support of assisted dying, but I've had many people coming up to me to shake my hand and say «It's what I've always thought».

So when people in the south spoke up for freedom and equal rights for the black race... they were inciting the guys who showed up at night to burn their homes because they knew it would upset the bigots?

More pastors have more people locked up by feeding them a steady diet of do's and don'ts blended with just enough of the gospel and religious speak, and willy - nilly bible passages that are turned into principles (laws), that the poison goes down smoothly and they keep comin» back for more.

For me I do believe in the Sacraments and the role they play in Salvation - Jesus did change wine into this blood and the bread into his body during the last supper and told believers to do this in his memory and he did foreshadow what would happen on the Cross he gave up his life so we maybe could be saved, because not all who profess Christ is Lord or believe in God will be saved, there are many people who claim they can abuse, sleep around, steal, cheat and that they'll still go to heave because 1 day they said the sinner's prayer, actions speak louder then words.

After Germany's collapse in 1945, Bishop von Galen became a figure of hope for his people, speaking up for prisoners - of - war, for German refugees and for the homeless.

When I spoke with her doctor on June 14th I told him that I believed God was going to raise Stella up, and that she was going to bring forth a testimony of His Son for her people.

If it is good enough for Jesus to be baptised then its good enough reason for me to as well that was why i wanted to be baptised.He says that it was necessary to fulfill all righteousness verse 15 in that sense he could have been talking of fulfilling the requirements of the law and in Jesus we fulfill the requirements of the law.I do nt believe that it is neccesary step to be saved as some of the gentile believers Peter spoke to received the holy spirit before they were baptised.Its a good picture of the old being washed away and we are raised up as a new person in Christ.When i was baptised in the holy spirit and spoke in tongues it was exactly like a water baptism i felt the water washing over me as it washed i just started speaking in tongues.brentnz

He added that although he is used to speaking in front of people, he was still nervous about singing in front of Simon Cowell and the other Britain's Got Talent judges: «I thought about it for a long time before deciding to enter and I kind of thought in the end I'm not going to beat myself up if they criticise me and I don't get any yes's... but I said I'd give it a go»

We had this discussion at church should we allow homosexuals in leadership i was the only one who spoke up and i had prayed during the week and confessed all my sin before the Lord i certainly had no right to condemn someone else for there sin.But the fact is that it needs addressing that was my question to the people presenting the proposal.Is homosexuality a sin the people taking the discussion would not address it as they knew scripturally that it was and clearly had no answer on dealing with that issue and tried to detour around it.

Tim Hughes added: «I believe when people worship, God shows up, God begins to engage with people, encourage them, speak to them, heal them, plant seeds and dreams in the future for them.»

He shall judge between many peoples, and shall arbitrate between strong nations far away; they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more; but they shall all sit under their own vines and under their own fig trees, and no one shall make them afraid; for the mouth of the LORD of hosts has spoken.

Why should it be acceptable for christians, jews, muslims or others to convert people to their religion, but once a group of atheists speaks up it is frowned upon?

68 Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people, 69 And hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David; 70 As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began:

Auden also gave a classic form to this problem when he had King Herod speak up for «standards» in For the Time Being: «Every corner - boy will congratulate himself: «I'm such a sinner that God had to come down in person to save for «standards» in For the Time Being: «Every corner - boy will congratulate himself: «I'm such a sinner that God had to come down in person to save For the Time Being: «Every corner - boy will congratulate himself: «I'm such a sinner that God had to come down in person to save me.