The moment you stand up for someone who can’t stand up for themselves, you find out who you are.

Values are theoretical until they cost something. You do not learn what you actually believe by considering it, you learn it in the half second where speaking up will make a room uncomfortable and staying quiet would be easy and invisible. Whatever you do in that half second is the real answer, and it often surprises people.

You cannot rehearse the moment, but you can decide in advance what you will not let pass. Name one thing now. Having decided beforehand is most of what makes it possible to act when the room goes quiet and everyone is waiting.