Quotes About Advocacy

Mrs. Munt—such is human nature—determined that she would champion the lovers. She was not going to be bullied by a severe young man.

Legislators represent people, not trees or acres.

It is my greatest wish to be thought of as a godfather, a man whose duty it is to do my friends any service, to help my friends out of any trouble- with advice, with money, with my own strength in men and influence- To everyone at this table, I say your enemies are my enemies, and your friends are my friends.

All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.

Baldwin penned a powerful open letter to Angela Davis, later published in The New York Review of Books. He famously wrote: "We must fight for your life as though it were our own—which it is—and render impassable with our bodies the corridor to the gas chamber. For, if they take you in the morning, they will be coming for us that night.

I think that much of this criticism fails to take seriously the continuity of themes running through Baldwin's body of work: that he continued to examine questions of American identity and history, railed against the traps of categories that narrowed our frames of reference, insisted that we reject the comfort and illusion of safety that the country's myths offered, and struggled mightily with the delicate balance between his advocacy and his art.

bear witness. To what life is—does—and to speak for people who cannot speak. That you are simply a kind of conduit.

People on death row, the treatment of animals, women's right to choose. So much in America is based on religious fundamentalist Christianity. Grow up! This is the modern world!

Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him.

The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.

It is not enough to understand the natural world. The point is to defend and preserve it.

The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders.

The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.

I stand for what I stand on.

I think it is far more important to save one square mile of wilderness, anywhere, by any means, than to produce another book on the subject.

Humanity has four and a half billion passionate advocates - but how many speak....for the gray wolf?....it is a man's duty to speak for the voiceless. A woman's obligation to aid the defenseless. Human needs do not take precedence over other forms of life; we must share this lovely, delicate, vapor-clouded little planet with all

My job is to save the fucking wilderness. I don't know anything else worth saving.

Hayduke thought. Finally the idea arrived. He said, 'My job is to save the fucking wilderness. I don't know anything else worth saving. That's simple, right?

In my case, saving the world was only a hobby.

They don't need a lawyer, they need a toastmaster.

Speak Truth to Power.

Women belong in the house... and the Senate.

We want bread and roses too.

It might be more worthwhile if we stopped wringing our hands and started ringing our congressmen.