take a stand

“Somebody, sometime, has got to take a stand and say democracy cannot survive, much less thrive with the level of big corporate and big government interference and intimidation in news.”

Attempting to silence the opposition, however, has a way of backfiring, galvanizing people to take a stand.

Nicholls led demonstrators through the parking lot and into the store, where she read aloud the letter asking Home Depot to take a stand against raids.

When it comes crashing down and it hurts inside you gotta take a stand, it don’t help to hide.

Murkowski, notably, was the only Republican to vote against Kavanaugh’s confirmation, a move many politics watchers interpreted as a sign that she was at least willing to take a stand for the basic rights of women.