Quotes About Advocacy

You have to put your body on the line from time to time in order to make a statement or change a law.

I am always in awe of people who devote their lives to a good cause and are brave enough to take a stance, though it may be controversial in their time.

Despite our significant public-policy differences, I commend Jim Wallis for advocating religious belief as an invaluable resource in addressing the urgent moral and social crises of our time.

There's always time to do things that you're passionate about. ... If my name helps get something out there that I believe in then I am going to produce it. ... Design is really my true love.

Anything that I've put my name to and my face to and put my time into, is something that I'm clearly passionate about, or I wouldn't be there.

If you are an intelligent human being then you are interested in climate change because it's the most important issue of our time.

In the Catholic view of things, abortion is a justice issue, not an issue of sexual morality... it is a civil rights issue, arguably the greatest civil rights issue of our time.

It is time to pick a side.Either we stand with the gun lobby or we join the president and stand up to them.

I'm highly political. I spend an awful lot of time in the U.S. trying to influence decision-makers. But I don't feel in tune with British politics.

When I first went public with my son Evan's story, I just planned to talk about the 'R' word - Recovery. But soon I was spending most my time talking about the 'V' word - vaccines.

If feminism wasn't powerful, if feminism wasn't influential, people wouldn't spend so much time putting it down.

I always judge people who spend a lot of time in public office say they care about things, if the day after they leave, they no longer talk about them, then I don't think they cared much about them.

Accepting necessary conflicts for the sake of improving the lives of children is the only fundamental moral crusade that matters.

I spent ridiculous amounts of time as an activist and volunteer and was a teacher for 20 years.

When I arrived in France aged 20, I marched against the death penalty, which was an unpopular thing to protest against at the time.

If you have time to get your pet rabbit its own Instagram account, you have time to at least tweet about something important.

I often get asked why I decided to spend time highlighting the mental health of children.

We need to do more than just what is right. We need to join together and right what is wrong.

When a group of people get together, it's collective power. You know that you're doing it for the good.

Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.

You have got to unite in the same labor union and in the same political party and strike and vote together, and the hour you do that, the world is yours.

When we organize with one another, when we get involved, when we stand up and speak out together, we can create a power no government can suppress.

The African-American community still needs to come together as one and stand up for rights of the people and of what's happening in their culture, their community.

The coming together of like-minded individuals through action is what's needed to see wide spread change for us, our planet and its creatures.