stand up and be counted
Verb
Meaning
(idiomatic) To publicly make known one's views, contributions, or vote, especially in a contentious situation where fortitude is required.
(idiomatic, often sports) To take significant individual action to help a group effort.
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Examples
There comes a time when one has to choose whether to kneel and be blessed, or to stand up and be counted. I choose the latter.
There comes a time when you have to stand up and be counted.
And there are certain things, and they are evident, obviously, without being boring about it, but I mean obviously, the two evident and easy ones being Gandhi and Cry Freedom, there are things which I do care about very much and which I would like to stand up and be counted.
Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.
When you feel powerful, you are willing to stand up for your rights, you are willing to stand up for what you believe in, you're more willing to stand up and be counted.
If we would stand up and be counted on the side of reason, we ought to drop terms like 'pseudoscience' and 'unscientific' from our vocabulary; they are just hollow phrases which do only emotive work for us.