No longer able to stand, the poor wretches are forced to crawl across the floor.
For over twenty years, Homeboy Industries has chosen to stand with those on the margins and those whose burdens are more than they can bear; it stands with the poor and the powerless, with the easily-despised and the readily-left out.
Tom Ahh, the wide-eyed cherub of the group, white-knuckling the notion of True Love in this modern age of online dating and liberated women with Don Draper fetishes -- as he stands now the poor guy doesn't stand a chance.
When they stand with the poor, they stand with Jesus.
"It is imperative that we have the courage to stand with the poor, to stand with working people, and, when necessary, take on very powerful and wealthy people whose greed is doing our country enormous harm," he said. .
But I am here to say that in a great cause these labor organizations, despised and weak and outlawed as they generally are, have stood for the poor, they have stood for the weak, they have stood for every human law that was ever placed upon the statute books.
As civil society, we will stand with the poor and marginalised at all costs.
He has to stand there, the poor sap, until she has finished telling jokes about his genitals.
But even among those whose brothers died while practicing their faith – to stand alongside the poor – there is sometimes a reluctance to embrace the term.
Opponents who branded him an enemy of property and order only gave credence to the claim of Jackson's supporters that he stood for the poor against the rich, the plain people against the interests.
