Quotes About Advocacy

Miley Cyrus followed me, tweeted at me. We started messaging; we traded numbers. She's become like a friend. She's super supportive of me being gay.

Unless physicians stand together to fight threats and injustices, our practices cannot remain viable in the future.

Together, we'll beat autism.

A democratic medical establishment does not alter people's bodies to fit regressive social norms it advocates for patients by demanding the social body get its act together.

You spend so much time barking up the civil-rights tree, you don't even know there's a human-rights tree on the same floor.

Corporate polluters, their phony think tanks and political toadies like to marginalize environmentalists as tree huggers, or radicals. But there is nothing radical about clean air or water.

Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.

I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees for the trees have no tongues.

I speak for the trees!

Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.

As a leader, you build trust when you give yourself 100%, so that people understand with your every action, you stand for them.

That feeling when you know you're being fought for.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

To make the public sentiment on the side of all that is just and true and noble is the highest use of life.

When i tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.

I'm going to speak the truth when I'm asked about it. This isn't for look. This isn't for publicity or anything like that. This is for people that don't have the voice.

One person can stop a great injustice. One person can be a voice for truth. One person's kindness can save a life.

To be an intellectual really means to speak a truth that allows suffering to speak.

The acid test of any truth is found in whether it aids victims in their struggle to overcome victimisation.

People who know the truth have no business to allow the powers of darkness to silence them on any point that matters.

Tens of millions of Americans now live longer and healthier lives because activists all over our nation fought for our American values of fairness and economic justice.

fight is worthwhile," Lehman said, "even if you know you're going to lose it. It's the only way to crystallize attitudes, educate people.

true believers in the ability of government to do good—often find it difficult to limit themselves to a few issues.

I'm always one sentence away from bringing up democracy, religious freedom, the rights of minorities, all of these in danger.