Quotes About Advocacy

I realize I will always be the poster child for police brutality, but I can try to use that as a positive force for healing and restraint.

Silence never won rights. They are not handed down from above; they are forced by pressures from below.

I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand the idea of freedom of speech, and don't understand that it's the responsibility of the citizen to speak out.

Was soll denn an dieser Behinderung Besonderes sein? Raúl Krauthausen ist einfach ein sehr beeindruckender Mensch mit starken Gaben. Er hat viel zu sagen und sich über seinen Rollstuhl schon lange erhoben.

Don't let anyone tell you that you don't have rights, because no one has the right to say that.

The law is whatever is successfully argued and plausibly maintained

Victims were not responsible for what happened to them.

Speak up, speak often and don't worry about those that at this point cannot understand as they can never un-hear what we tell them.

Too many of the mentally ill in our country live under conditions of atrocity. Storytelling

Every child deserves a champion, an adult who will never give up on them, who understands the power of connection, and insists that they become the best that they can possibly be.

When I was 27 years old, I organized legal aid clinics to help low-income seniors. It was a life-altering experience.

Though he recognized that there were many qualities of a successful lawyer, he believed this one virtue trumped all others. "However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech.

Healthcare for all is a central part of any biblically informed pro-life agenda.

Hunger and thirst for righteousness.

Care for the hurting and oppressed.

The vision of society articulated by Charles Finney and other evangelicals took special notice of those on the margins of society—women, slaves, the victims of war and abuse, prisoners, the poor—those Jesus called "the least of these.

Advocates of the Social Gospel worked hand in hand with political progressives on behalf of child-labor laws, housing reform, and the six-day work week. They battled against alcohol abuse and corrupt political machines.

Regardless of whether you are a Democrat, Republican, Independent, never-Trumper, or apolitical, surely we can unite on that front and agree that the objectification and sexualization of girls and women is never acceptable on any level.

Regardless of whether or not you support Trump, it is my sincerest desire to implore Christians to speak up about the dangers of objectifying women, even if the perpetrator is the president of the United States.

No one will hear our pleas for the unborn if, at the same time, we ignore the devaluation of other marginalized populations outside of the womb.

Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.

In opening our hearts, we hope this might promote greater awareness of this condition. Perhaps it will encourage a clearer understanding of the individuals and families who are affected by it.

We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.

As secretary of the NAACP, I recorded and sent membership payments to the national office, answered telephones, wrote letters, and sent out press releases to the newspapers. One of my main duties was to keep a record of cases of discrimination or unfair treatment or acts of violence against black people.