Quotes About Advocacy

How can I help change things if I sit by and do nothing?

He defended them because he believed that every social interest should have its chance.

I think that woman can do a great deal for each other if they will only stop fearing what 'people will think' and take a hearty interest in whatever is going to fit their sisters and themselves to deserve and enjoy the rights God gave them. There are so many ways in which this can be done that I wonder they don't see and improve them.

Throughout my life, I guess there's been one thing that's troubled me more than any other: the abuse of people and the theft of their democratic rights, whether by a totalitarian government, an employer, or anyone else. I probably got it from my father; Jack never bristled more than when he thought working people were being exploited.

Women have always fought not just for survival, but for the meaning of the struggle - now, they are organizing, grouping and pushing forward, not merely for new definitions, but for the right to define.

Angry? Yes, I'm angry: I'd be a lousy lawyer if I weren't.

Listen, identify withe the victims and you become one yourself. Victims make lousy litigators.

Ubóstwo to stan niemo?noÅ›ci wypowiedzenia siÄ™. Ludzie ubodzy nie majÄ… gÅ'osu, nie sÄ… nigdzie szanowani, nie sÄ… tolerowani. KtoÅ› musi mówi? w ich imieniu. To jest przyczyna, dla której o nich piszÄ™.

You will see, as time goes by, said Ibn Rushd, that in the end it will be religion that will make men turn away from God. The godly are God's worst advocates.

Many of us persons of the tinted persuasion care about human rights and artistic freedom too.

La misión del poeta es nombrar lo innombrable, denunciar el engaño, tomar partido, iniciar discusiones, dar forma al mundo e impedir que se duerma.»

free speech isn't absolute. We have the freedoms we fight for and we lose those we don't defend.

We have the freedoms we fight for, and we lose those we don't defend.

Sports plays an interesting role in society. The greatest sportsmen have platforms to speak out on issues and really affect how the public thinks about some very critical issues facing the world.

Social reforms are never carried out by the weakness of the strong; but always by the strength of the weak.

I am not anxious to be the loudest voice or the most popular. But I would like to think that at a crucial moment, I was an effective voice of the voiceless, an effective hope of the hopeless.

We must believe in the power and strength of our words. Our words can change the world.

It gives me strength to have somebody to fight for; I can never fight for myself, but, for others, I can kill.

I'm one of those people who feels like I have to be strong for those people who may not be able to find that strength. I feel like I have to speak up for those people whose voices go unheard.

We need to redefine strength in men, not as the power over other people, but as forces for justice.

We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.

I am hopeful that others who have suffered sexual harassment will not become discouraged by my experience, but instead will find the strength to speak out about this serious problem.

The strength of women and women's rights around the world are especially important because that affects children and families. And the cascade effect is remarkable.

If I'm able to use my voice to do good in the world then I definitely want to do that.