Quotes About Advocacy

But the best thing Marx did for them was this: He believed in them.

Just because something is a small problem doesn't mean it shouldn't be addressed. Small injustices conceal larger ones" -Anya

All along I've had to defend my right to get help.

Feminist' simply means someone who supports equal rights and opportunities for women. But there have been very few periods in American history when it didn't wind up being linked to images of cranky man-haters in unfashionable footwear.

These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message.

The most powerful power is the power to empower the powerless.

Forty-two years after Dr. King was murdered, we are still a nation of inequality. People of color, women, gays, lesbians, and others are still treated as second-class citizens. Yes, things have changed but we have still not achieved equality among all humans. And nonhuman animals continue to be chattel property without any inherent value.

How can I make a difference in restoring what's been lost? How can I help make sure our veterans are never treated that way again?

Every time you drink a glass of milk or eat a piece of cheese, you harm a mother. Please go vegan.

Worship is accessible bathrooms. Worship is inclusive language. Worship is protest marches. Worship is food banks. Worship is letter-writing campaigns. Worship is hard conversations with friends, family, and neighbors. Worship is prison abolition.

Sexual rights are not only a basic element of human rights but should have an integral part in moves towards Arab reform ...

We have abolished the death penalty for humans, so why should it continue for animals?

Ironically, breast cancer gets so much attention partly because so many women survive it and become advocates, producing and participating in publicity-grabbing events such as the annual Race for the Cure.

American students have finally come around to support something that must be done.

When voices become so shrill in a righteous cause that they are indistinguishable from the sounds of hatred, then the righteousness advocated gets lost in the din of rhetoric.

Grace unfolds on every page [of Scripture]: God's long march through the history of human rebellion and ruin to reach us with the love of his Son; the Savior's humble service, sinless life, sacrificial death, victorious resurrection, and promised return; the Holy Spirit's indwelling witness, power, and advocacy—all unswerving despite our wayward ways and hard hearts.

The opposite of poverty is not wealth. … In too many places, the opposite of poverty is justice.

Do not make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.

Before I spoke, the general talk was drifting to women's emancipation, birth control in the Third World, and how the Third World women were suffering. I don't know why I hated people talking about us like that......... So I got up and shocked all those ladies, telling them to mind their own business and leave us Third World women alone. One could have heard a pin drop. I thought at one time I would be thrown out. But I was not.

It cannot be denied that too often the weight of the Christian movement has been on the side of the strong and the powerful and against the weak and oppressed—this, despite the gospel.

The cry of the poor is not always just, but if you don't listen to it, you will never know what justice is.

You can't be neutral on a moving train

El grito de los pobres no siempre es justo, pero si no lo escuchas, nunca sabrás lo que es la justicia".

During the five years since the Party had been formed, it always seemed that time was measured not in days or months or hours but by the movements of comrades and brothers in and out of prison and by the dates of hearings, releases, and trials. Our lives were regulated not by the ordinary tempo of daily events but by the forced clockwork of the judicial process (330)