assert oneself
take a stand
fight one's corner
white knight
take up for
day in court
dig in one's heels
pound the table
stand up for
contend
take up the cudgel for
take someone's part
speak up
bastion
self-renunciation
assert
stand in the gap
self-protection
oppose
apologia
frogmarch
self-defense
self-defence
win over
hara-kiri
come to bat
shoot oneself in the foot
justifier
stand behind
apologist
vindicator
gladiator
take sides
fight back
turn against
advocacy
win around
ax to grind
counterinterest
contest
championing
controvert
abnegate
militant
bark up the wrong tree
defendably
antipositional
antirights
argumentum ad invidiam
dispute
wear
reactionaryism
paromologia
pertinaciously
bork
rebel
rightism
misnegotiate
counterargue
paromology
refutation
in spite of someone's teeth
counterprotestor
excuse
exculpation
considerate
taste blood
go negative
dissident
alibi
circle the wagons
antiprotest
self-justification
sell out
counteract
casuistry
counterpetitioner
sell down
protester
detain
throw one's weight behind
borking
ammunition
wokescold
autocritique
freedom of thought
protagonism
Nixon in China
vacillate
cheek up
stick up
woo
stand up
cheek up to
look out