Quotes About Advocacy

I feel strongly for gay marriage to be accepted.

trans community is entitled to fight for their rights, you need to be more open-minded on that score or you'll risk becoming irrelevant, I've

we have to be more than teachers, we have to look after them, believe in them if we don't help them, who will

Bill McKibben named his climate change advocacy group 350.org, because 350 ppm of atmospheric carbon dioxide is what Dr. James Hansen, former head of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies and one of the most respected climatologists in the world, says is the maximum level to "preserve a planet similar to that on which civilization developed and to which life on Earth is adapted." Tragically, we have now exceeded 400 ppm.

Change will not take place without political participation.

You're either on the side of workers and organized labor, or you're not.

TAKE CARE OF THE CHILDREN WHO DON'T HAVE ANYONE TO TAKE CARE OF THEM

No people anywhere in the world would accept being expelled en masse from their own country; how can anyone require the people of Palestine to accept a punishment which nobody else would tolerate?

When fighting on behalf of someone you love, the fight must end, the love must be the art of being present.

With over 3 million women battling breast cancer today, everywhere you turn there is a mother, daughter, sister, or friend who has been affected by breast cancer.

I mean you might say he had a travelling post office, but also Barney was very, very active. He was a legal officer for the NAACP and they had a lot of problems after Pease.

This is senior citizen profiling and I will not put up with it one more minute." A

I don't have the desire nor the patience to argue laws that only one race has to abide by.

They forgot about us women!" When laughter broke out, she countered, "Do I look like I'm joking?

Maria W Stewart women of all races can lecture now.

Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow.

We're seeing during this crisis just why it is so important for American workers to belong to unions, so that they have someone to fight for them and with them.

we are partisan in favor of our own children and grandchildren, who we hope can live in a world that doesn't poison them when they drink the water, breathe the air, or make a living.

Edgar Wayburn has worked to preserve the most breath-taking examples of the American landscape. In fact, over the course of more than a half-century, both as President of the Sierra Club and as a private citizen, he has saved more of our wilderness than any person alive.

Me and my dad are the biggest promoters of an estate tax in the US. It's not a popular position.

If you're so pro-life, do me a favour: don't lock arms and block medical clinics. If you're so pro-life, lock arms and block cemeteries.

Everyone has a right to a strong and independent future: All of us have the right, and personal obligation, to choose whether or not company-driven hardships and sacrifices, overall, are shackling or strengthening our future. And to keep that right, each of us must be our own best advocate.

Whenever the people are for gay marriage or medical marijuana or assisted suicide, suddenly the 'will of the people' goes out the window.

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