stick up for

Horn and others say California Democrats should continue to stick up for their values.

“But we are going to do everything in our power to stick up for the community.”

“White people can’t stick up for themselves? You’re racist.”

You either allow men to walk all over you and talk all over you, or you learn really quickly and very aggressively to stick up for yourself.

This was a kid who, if he saw his friends being bullied, he was going to stick up for them.