Quotes About Advocacy

Summing up Grant's career, Frederick Douglass wrote: "In him the Negro found a protector, the Indian a friend, a vanquished foe a brother, an imperiled nation a savior.

Frederick Douglass paired Grant with Lincoln as the two people who had done most to secure African American advances:

In discussing this Romanian bloodletting with Simon Wolf, Grant declared that "respect for human rights" was the "first duty" of any head of state and that blacks and Jews should be elevated to a rank of "equality with the most enlightened." Grant showed surprising passion on the subject, saying "the story of the sufferings of the Hebrews of Roumania profoundly touches every sensibility of our nature.

Dodd, do you often act for both sides in a case?

He sometimes represented poor people in criminal cases on a pro bono basis or was paid with just a barrel of ham.

The incredible women around the world who do stand up for justice can in fact transform the planet.

I sighed. Don't let anyone tell you that looking out for your vulnerable is less than a full-time deal.

I don't smoke pot, and I'm glad because then I can champion it without special pleading. The reason I don't smoke it is because it facilitates ideas and heightens sensations-and I've got enough shit flying through my head without smoking pot.

Emily Hobhouse

Wild-eyed gun nuts who insist that guns don't kill people are purely full of crap, as even a cursory glance at a newspaper on almost any given day will attest.

This is what courage is. It's not just living through the nightmare, it's doing something with it afterward. It's being brave enough to talk about it to other people. It's trying to organize to change things.

The world is only as fair as you can make it. Takes a lot of fight. A lot of fight. But if you stay in here, in your little cave, that's one less fighter on the side of fair.

And if I talk too loud, its just that I'm trying to be heard.

Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves;    ensure justice for those being crushed. Yes, speak up for the poor and helpless,    and see that they get justice. (Proverbs 31:8–9, NLT)

I couldn't quit, because of all the kids, and the blacks, and the little people pulling for me. I represent both the underdog and the overdog in our society.

We will not let governments off the hook. We will look to civil society to help us, to pin governments, to what they have committed to here. And we will report on it.

If you are a minority, it is important that you have legal ways to defend yourself in the society in which you live.

Our society and especially those who suffer injustice need to feel the impact of our commitment to justice and our advocacy for the vulnerable.

I welcomed the organization of the Anti-slavery Society.

As a society, we are typically deeply disassociated from animal cruelty, but more than ever, animal protection organizations are telling the backstory.

Artists are a free society's greatest advocates and its best bulwarks. Their triumphs are civilization's triumphs.

When someone else's safety and acceptance in society is on the line, your personal discomfort comes in a very distant second.

Students for a Democratic Society was also affiliated with the civil rights movement everywhere.

You need the activism. You need people who are organized and willing to bring light to injustices in society.