Quotes About Advocacy

One has to speak out and stand up for one's convictions. Inaction at a time of conflagration is inexcusable.

If the only time you think of me as a scientist is during Black History Month, then I must not be doing my job as a scientist.

It takes leadership to improve safety. And I started off the movement in my time, but the person who has done more over the past 20 to 30 years and who has led it is Professor Sid Watkins.

Perhaps there will come a time when...an unmarried mother will not be despised because of her motherhood...and when the right of the unborn to be born will not be denied or interfered with.

If you look at our records, I stood up to corporate America time and time again. I went to Mexico. I saw the lives of people who were working in American factories and making $0.25 an hour.

The gun lobby finds waiting periods inconvenient. You have only to ask my husband how inconvenient he finds his wheelchair from time to time.

One does not permit one's friends to be slandered in time of trouble.

In my world there's no room for hate or discrimination in the White House. I will be an outspoken voice against that every time.

There has never been a time when I was not committed to, involved in, or caring of, the social and political issues of my world.

Our friend stood still for a moment, and throwing his head a little back, said, "Do you know why this world is as bad as it is?" "No," said the other. "Then I'll tell you. It is because people think only about their own business, and won't trouble themselves to stand up for the oppressed, nor bring the wrong-doer to light. I never see a wicked thing like this without doing what I can

Il mondo va male perché la gente pensa solo agli affari propri, e non si preoccupa mai di prendere le parti di chi è ingiustamente oppresso o di smascherare i malfattori. Per fortuna

As a Christian and a feminist, the most important message I can carry and fight for is the sacredness of each human life, and reproductive rights for all women are a crucial part of that. It is a moral necessity that we not be forced to bring children into the world for whom we cannot be responsible and adoring and present. We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on society.

I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and save the world. You sent money to the Red Cross, you registered people to vote, you marched in rallies, stood in vigils, picked up litter.

Jesus said that whatever you did to the least of his people, you did to him, and the lifers in penitentiaries are the leastest people in this country. Just look to see whose budgets are being cut these days -- the old, the crazies, the children in Head Start -- and that's where Jesus will be.

The writer has to die to give birth to the intellectual in the service of the wretched of the earth.

For the frequent user, the impact of a cooler, better, easier-to-use input device is profound – so profound that many users are happy to proselytize to their peers. More sneezing of a Purple Cow.

You can keep waiting to get plucked from obscurity, or you can learn how to champion your project one person at a time.

Too many organizations care about numbers, not fans.

Your best customers become your new salespeople.

It's not enough to find a niche that shares a worldview. That niche has to be ready and able to influence a large group of their friends.

I always believed that women have rights and that there are some women that are intelligent enough to claim those rights. There are some others that are stupid enough not to. It is as cut-and dried as that. It doesn't matter if you are a woman or not; in this life, to earn your place you have to fight for it.

You have to take a stand when things aren't right.

I wasn't just defending myself. I was defending Indians, black people, and buffalo.

What do you want exactly? (Fang) An end to the mistreatment of small, fluffy dust bunnies. (Thorn)