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Quotes About Advocacy

Plant your flag, respectfully stand for truth, justice, and freedom for all.
~ L.M. Fields
We need to bless instead of condemning, we need to learn to stand for the truth of God and for our rights
~ Sunday Adelaja
If you don't make a stand for something you'll never make a stand for nothing..
~ Alcurtis Turner
When liberators hide their liberty tools, injustice prevails. True leaders intervene by dealing with injustice before it passes puberty.
~ Israelmore Ayivor
The truth is that at the White House and in Congress, you are as likely to find sympathy for animal issues among Republicans as among Democrats.
~ Matthew Scully
People assume that if they say nothing and do nothing they're not involved in the fight, but the fact is that their apathy is a tacit vote of support for the status quo.
~ Michael A. Stackpole
So they just made sure they weren't part of the problem and fought the good fight, knowing they'd never prevail.
~ Michael Azerrad
But when Bosch opened the files as part of his cold-case review, he took a different approach. He had always operated according to the axiom that everybody counts in this world or nobody counts. This belief dictated that he must give each case and each victim his best effort.
~ Michael Connelly
It was during my explanation to my young daughter that I finally realized why I had been drawn to this particular practice of law. Yes, some of my clients were just gaming the system. They were charlatans no better than the banks they were taking on. But some of mu clients were downtrodden and disadvantaged. They were true underdogs in society and I wanted to stand for them and keep them in their homes for as long as I possibly could.
~ Michael Connelly
He knew that you didn't win justice by carrying a sign or a cardboard coffin. You earned it by being on the side of the righteous, by being unswayed from that
~ Michael Connelly
People too poor to afford their own legal defense and reliant on the government that was prosecuting them to also defend them.
~ Michael Connelly
Bosch liked short prosecutors. They were always trying to make up for something and usually it was the defendant who ended up paying the price.
~ Michael Connelly
In a courtroom I can sell ice to Eskimos
~ Michael Connelly
The trouble with this country," he said, "is that the women have no guts.They'd rather slink off and have a dangerous, illegal operation performed than change the laws. The legislators are all men, and men don't bear babies; they can afford to be moralistic.
~ Michael Crichton
But as Alston Chase put it, "when the search for truth is confused with political advocacy, the pursuit of knowledge is reduced to the quest for power.
~ Michael Crichton
In the modern world, it's a much more serious transgression to shoot a tiger than to shoot your parents. Tigers have advocates.
~ Michael Crichton
Men's rights activists are furious about having burdensome responsibilities, like child support, but rarely, if ever, wax rhapsodic about the joys of fatherhood or the loving connections that fathers are capable of having with their children.
~ Michael Kimmel
Parents of all girls must simultaneously explain overt and covert sexism, name it whenever they see it, and teach their daughters to do the same.
~ Rachel Simmons
As pro-life advocates continue to expose the scientific and ethical reality of abortion, we must also console the millions of Americans who carry the heavy burden of an enormous sin.
~ Michael J. Knowles
I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
~ Adam Lambert
There are people in our country, in our communities who are being marginalized and discriminated against every single day. I fight for them.
~ Mazie Hirono
Farmers in Iowa know that I've been out there, and manufacturers, fighting for them every single day.
~ Kim Reynolds
For me, as a feminist, as somebody who wants to lift up women - because I do; I come from a single mom who raised three boys on her own - I feel like, you close the door on women, you close the door on humanity.
~ Theodore Melfi
Every single person is political. I am a Left-liberal and my politics is issue-based.
~ Aparna Sen