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And I stood on that stage with Dizzy Gillespie on sound check on a Wednesday afternoon, and I said, "Dizzy, why would you come to a black-run center in the middle of an industrial park with a high crime rate that doesn't even have a reputation in music?"
And so I stood up in front of 200 very angry, very disappointed people on a summer night, and the air conditioner had broken and it was 100 degrees outside, and I started showing these pictures.
And in the back of the room, a woman stood up and she said, "In 35 years of living in this God forsaken place, you're the only person that's come down here and treated us with dignity.
As a teacher, I've stood in front of 120 students, so this stage does not intimidate me.
She stood up, she found her voice, and my girl told them that she wanted justice, and she got it.
Locals and travelers had long speculated that Troy might’ve stood on one of the surrounding hilltops.
My parents and I trusted her because we knew who she was and what she stood for, and she had no need to hide from us.
I spent the last few weeks gathering data about Rio, and one of the things that stood out to me about this city is that everything's really kind of mixed up.
My community stood up against us, saying we were spreading un-Islamic behavior.
He must keep going, he does, and after 60 days on the ice, we stood at the North Pole.
But the amazing news was that because they had stood up, these women, and because they had been willing to risk their security, it began a discussion that not only happened in Uganda, but all of Africa.
Two fundamental hurdles stood in the way.
The blind man went down on his knees like this, and told the man with no legs to go over his back, and stood up.
The old man stood up, he left.
And when the president stood up to speak, I found myself on my feet shouting at the president, telling him to remember the post-election violence victims, to stop the corruption.
That day in the stadium, I stood up as a smart coward.
He stood there staring at it in silence, then he grabbed the book out of my hand and started running down the long, narrow hallway holding it over his head shouting, "I exist!
Because China is today not just woken up, China has stood up and China is on the march, and the question for us all is where will China go and how do we engage this giant of the 21st century?
Everyone in that cafe, every one of the white folks, stood up and applauded.
So I thought long and hard, and I stood here two days ago, and I had my test run, and I had my cards and my clicker in my hands and my pictures were on the screen, and I had my three lessons, and I started presenting them, and I had this very odd out-of-body experience.
So I kept running and I kept running, and I sort of got somewhere and I sort of stood there and looked around me and I thought, well, where do I belong?
As I stood in that grocery store weeks later, I realized I had no idea of who to thank for this plenty, and no idea of how they were being treated.
When, all of a sudden, a girl way in the back of the auditorium, she stood up and she said, "Miss!
A housing discrimination lawsuit against Allegheny County removed where the projects Talbot Towers once stood.
And as we stood in line in an attempt to give my niece a better vantage point than the backside of the mother of number 58, I put her up on my shoulders, and she was instantly riveted by the sight of the princesses.
And in this case, next to these women stood men who wanted to see them succeed.
This very unlikely band of sisters bound forever in life and afterward did indeed become part of history, and they paved the way for so many who would come after them, as much as they stood on the shoulders of those who had come before.
And when a police officer stood in the road, our vehicle should understand that this means stop, and when they signal to go, we should continue.
Five years ago, I stood on the TED stage, and I spoke about my work.
And I'm here to say that in my community, it was the first community after girls pushed so hard to our traditional leader, and our leader stood up for us and said no girl has to be married before the age of 18. (Applause) In my community, that was the first time a community, they had to call the bylaws, the first bylaw that protected girls in our community.
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