Quotes About Advocacy

It is one thing to feel strongly about injustice, but those who have suffered injustice do not need feelings. They need actions. Justice is not a speech, nor even a truth. It's an activity.

America also has sinned grievously since 1973 in allowing, by law, the killing of as many as fifty five million American babies in, and emerging from, their mothers' wombs. Does anyone seriously think that this carnage would have been allowed to happen if the Church had arisen with one voice and said 'we will not abide the legalized murder of our children in the womb'?

David Bereit, Founder of Forty Days for Life, points out that any abortion clinic in America should have a sign in its window that reads "THIS ABORTION CLINIC IS MADE POSSIBLE BY THE INACTION OF CHRISTIANS IN THIS COMMUNITY.

Por donde sea que el estandarte de la libertad y la independencia se haya desplegado o se vaya a desplegar, ahí estarán su corazón, sus bendiciones y sus plegarias. Pero no irán a ultramar en busca de monstruos que destruir. Desearán la libertad y la independencia de todos, pero sólo serán paladines y justificadores de sí mismos.

The movements for healthy food are growing fast, and starting to become a political force.

We lose eight children and teenagers to gun violence every day. If a mysterious virus suddenly started killing eight of our children every day, America would mobilize teams of doctors and public health officials. We would move heaven and earth until we found a way to protect our children. But not with gun violence.

Everybody in this room knows the basic rule: if you don't have a seat at the table, you are probably on the menu.

I am the voice of the voiceless; Through me the dumb shall speak. Till the deaf world's ears be made to hear. The wrongs of the wordless weak. And I am my brothers keeper, And I will fight his fights; And speak the words for beast and bird. Till the world shall set things right.

I would love to have the same rights as everybody else. I would love, I don't care if it's called marriage. I don't care if it's called, you know, domestic partnership. I don't care what it's called.

I cannot believe they haven't yet come up with a better screening process than the mammogram. If a man had to put his special parts inside a clamp to test him for anything, I think they would come up with a new plan before the doctor finished saying, "Put that thing there so I can crush it.

Anyone/any leader who fails to secure justice for the poor and as well fails to uphold the cause of the needy is never a true love/leader. For, a true love/leader ought to be securing justice for the poor and he or she ought to be upholding the cause of the needy around him/her and even those afar off.

You ought to be professing/publicizing whatever you believe in and as well hang on to it i.e. you've got to hold on firmly to it no matter what happens. Yes, you've got to be doing just that.

The fate of animals is of far greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous.

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

Incarceration seems to have been obtained in consequence of Mrs. Packard using her reason and, not as reported, by her losing her reason.

As a lawyer, I was paid to write persuasively. I was paid to take the same set of facts the other side had and make you believe that my version of it was true, while the other side was doing the exact same thing.

There's nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.

Now we're in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change - we're doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change - inch by inch, day by day.

My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.

Even if I have to stand alone, I will not be afraid to stand alone. I'm going to fight for you. I'm going to fight for what's right. I'm going to fight to hold people accountable.

Handing out free food and clothes was a charitable act. Approaching the powers was a political act.

I haven't done anything as rewarding as this since I passed the bar. It was the best, Roger. I totally know what you mean about feeling good when you help people. I would represent one person like Lee any day over the jackasses I've been working with for the last seven years!

Someone has to stand up for wimps.

We have fought for social justice. We have fought for economic justice. We have fought for environmental justice. We have fought for criminal justice. Now we must add a new fight - the fight for electoral justice.