Quotes About Advocacy

The worth of a cause is not necessarily proportional to the lengths to which people will go to promote it.

I'm thinking of trying to talk Jonathan Toews into running for Congress. We could use him.

Nothing can bring my Jordan back but I have learned to channel my grief into action to honor my son.

Some of my earliest heroes were congresswomen like Shirley Chisholm and Barbara Jordan.

I'm not an advocacy journalist - that's not what I do. My role in journalism is to be able to engage the most interesting people with the best ideas.

To me, David Astor was a freedom fighter. To me, he wasn't just a journalist; he was a freedom fighter.

As communicators and marketers, people are so accustomed to thinking from the 'top down.' Finding the great analyst or the famous journalist who will endorse what you do and tell the rest of the world to go and buy your product.

I was one of the few journalists who was quite pro-Corbyn from the beginning.

I am not anti-men, I believe truly that we are meant to be equal. We should be judged equally and I think I am a living example of feminism.

Judiciary is where my passion is.

I can't describe the feeling I got the first time I won a jury award for an injured person.

As a lawyer, particularly in criminal law, you really do have to try to tell your story to the jury and hope that the judge makes rulings that allows your story to get through.

I've been an activist in the LGBT community for a long time. I think nothing's changed, I'm just a little bit more focused on the 'T' now than I was on the 'L' or the 'G.'

When they speak about 'We the people...,' we the people have to have a voice. It can't just be the establishment voice.

The important thing is this Just because I'm doing well doesn't mean that they're going to do well if they get HIV. A lot of people have died since I have announced. This disease is not going anywhere.

Activism isn't something you just kind of get involved in and then turn your back on it.

Christians should emphatically be campaigning for justice for the poor - but the Church is not a campaign.

I have always fought for concrete facts, for justice.

If you are serving justice to one person, those who have been affected should also be served some form of justice.

I believe that the way to justice is education.

Individuals can resist injustice, but only a community can do justice.

There's no justification to not be paid the same as the men. We do everything the men do.

If someone said, 'Jon, we need $250 million a year from now and we can make a dramatic breakthrough for ovarian cancer,' I'd have $250 million in two months. You just work day and night if the cause in your heart is justified.

People will justify whatever for a good cause.