Washington Wizards player John Wall said that leading white quarterbacks like Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers have to speak out in support of NFL players who kneel during the anthem.

Wall said on ESPN on Monday that big-name quarterbacks are “the face of the league” and have a responsibility to defend the largely black group of players who kneel during the anthem to protest racial inequality, a practice getting more attention after it was slammed by President Trump.

“Until those guys in the NFL stand up for [Colin] Kaepernick and stand for those guys … I don’t think anything’s going to change,” Wall said.

Kaepernick, a former quarterback in San Francisco, has become the face of the movement after failing to secure a new team following his kneeling protest.

Wall also noted that while there are many talented African-American quarterbacks in colleges, most have their positions changed when they get to the NFL “because franchise guys are quarterbacks.”

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Wall said that when the NBA had its own issues with former L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling, who earned a lifetime ban from the NBA after he was taped making racist comments to his girlfriend, it wasn’t until top African-American players who serve as the face of the league began speaking out that action was taken.

“When those guys came out and started talking, what happened? He’s fired. The stand stood,” Wall said.

Brady and Rodgers have both spoken out about Trump’s attacks on NFL players who kneel during the national anthem. Brady, a friend of Trump’s, blasted the comments as “just divisive.”

Rogers shared a photo of him kneeling on Instagram ahead of the Green Bay Packers game Sunday. Rodgers and Brady both stood with their arms locked with other players in solidarity during the national anthem at their games Sunday.

“On this team we’re going to keep choosing love over hate unity over division. That’s what it was to us in talking last night and this morning. You know, the few of us who linked arms just wanted to show a united front," Rodgers said after the game.

Trump set off a firestorm of criticism after he called at a campaign rally on Friday for NFL players who kneel during the anthem to be fired and repeated his attacks throughout the weekend into Monday.