Quotes About Advocacy

I liked discussion and debate and thought that these skills fit well with law. I also had an interest in justice - and later learned that sometimes law and justice actually agree!

I wanted to use my writing skills to bring attention to the overwhelming needs of the Gulf coast region.

I love swimming, swimming's my passion and I hope I swim until the last day of my life, so I really, really do enjoy swimming, but swimming for me is simply a way of carrying a message.

My little brother is autistic, so I would love to be involved in a charity for autism, but I haven't found the right one yet.

I love nuts. I'm for nuts. I am nuts.

I would love to have the same rights as everybody else. I would love, I don't care if it's called marriage. I don't care if it's called, you know, domestic partnership. I don't care what it's called.

I really, really, loved being an elected official. But I also love what I'm doing now. I thrive when I can fight for people and I'm doing it now as a lawyer.

I think it's safe to say that each of us has at least one issue we are passionate about and struggle with, issues that robs us of our peace, our joy and our ability to experience love.

And the more you are active about something you love, the world is going to be a better place.

I love reform better than its modes.

I'd love to talk to Janeane Garafalo or Randi Rhodes or Stephanie Miller from Air America. I'm an Air American junkie; I listen to them every day.

I will take on the epidemics of gun violence and campus sexual assault, so that everyone in America is safe and respected, no matter who they are, where they live, or who they love.

But love must be aggressively translated into simple justice.

I am an activist. I have a really big pulpit with my fiction and I love knowing that I can make people think.

I think Michael Moore is a hero. I love him.

Our criminal justice system has swallowed up too many people I love. I am proud to join the ACLU in the fight to make mass incarceration a thing of the past.

it is an undeniable fact that, in organizing, petitioning, and speaking out to free the slaves, American women learned how to free themselves.

To remain silent would be to disconnect from her own experience, to swallow and internalize her own oppression. The cost of silence is too high.

there are about seven thousand rare diseases—so many that about one person in seventeen in the developed world has one, which isn't very rare at all. But, sadly, so long as a disease affects only a small number of people, it is unlikely to get much research attention. For 90 percent of rare diseases, there are no treatments at all.

But I hope you'll spend more time and energy supporting whatever you're in favor of than opposing whatever you're against.

Whatever other resources you may have, you can always use your voice and your vote to effect change.

It may sound old-fashioned, but letters and phone calls to your elected officials can have a real impact.

News must also be about solving the problems that confront individuals and the community. There are lines between news and advocacy, but helping solve problems is different from advocacy.

Be a squeaky wheel but talk nice