Quotes About Advocacy

For this reason, temperance was an important component in the Progressive movement's effort to improve the lives of the working class.

Often the hardest person to fight for is... yourself. But you must. Your heart is needed. You must be present and engaged in order to love well and fight on behalf of others. Without you, much will be lost." Chapter 11 "Warrior Princess

I think if the people of this country can be reached with the truth, their judgment will be in favor of the many, as against the privileged few

OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our advocacy.

When a woman has the opportunity to speak truth to power, it's important that she does, even if it's just trying to get a crosswalk in her neighborhood. That's how social change happens!

I'm a liberal, I was born a liberal, I'll be one 'til I die, what else should a reporter be when you see so much and when we have such great privilege and access to the truth?

The use of great men is to serve the little men, to take care of the human race, and act as practical interpreters of justice and truth.

We are learning more about the humanity of the unborn child. Science and truth support the prolife movement.

I have always been interested in gender politics, so I'm not that keen on doing things that don't represent a truth about women.

People are needed to take up the challenge, strong people, who proclaim the truth, throw it in people's faces, and do what they can with their own two hands.

I believe what I write to be the truth...every man who is not indifferent to the truth has a weakness for spreading it about.

If one really believes that the metaphysic one adopts has much to commend it, then one should obviously try to persuade others of its truth or acceptability!

Activists need to get the facts right. One of the big assets we have on our side is the truth, and we lose credibility and power if w e're loose with that.

As you look at me and listen to me, please remember the often repeated truth that one prisoner of conscience is one too many.

You are in the field to defend the public interest, the financial truth for investors and the funds that should support the widow and the orphan.

When people ask what were the qualities of Bobby Kennedy that they most admired, it was first that he was tough. Second, he told the truth and third, he stood up for the little guy.

It is not when it is dangerous to tell the truth that its advocates are hardest to find, but when it is boring.

The worst service, I fancy, that anyone can do for truth, is to set silly people writing on its behalf.

I am resolved that I will not through humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.

I'm someone who believes the truth needs to be heard. And if I'm empowered with the truth, I'm not going to shut up.

Stand up for Truth regardless of who steps on it.

The fewer the voices on the side of truth, the more distinct and strong must be your own.

... I think this Law, by which I am punished, is both unreasonable in itself, and particularly severe... Polly Baker

Life's true value and meaning can only be known if we speak for the truth, not for our advocacy, but for the truth itself.