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