Quotes About Advocacy

I'm not trying to write raps for people in three-piece suits sitting behind big oak desks. I'm writing for people who can't speak for themselves and about things we see every day.

I remember specifically, in the summer of 2002, the rate of women infected with HIV/AIDS was beginning to match the rate of men, and nobody was talking about it. It was as if it was on nobody else's radar. I had made up my mind to do something about it.

I was at Earth Summit in Rio 20 years ago... I was only 12 years old. And when I was speaking to the U.N. I was fighting for my future.

I'm trying to bring back 'Top of the Pops.' I don't know why us artists haven't just stood there and said, 'Let's back a campaign and bring it back,' because it would be the most amazing thing ever. 'X Factor' has got the Sunday show, and except for 'Later with Jools Holland,' which is a massive success, there isn't one music show.

If someone complains about Europe from Monday to Saturday, then nobody is going to believe him on Sunday when he says he is a convinced European.

We think there's nothing like sunlight to mobilize and energize citizens to demand change of their elected officials.

I'm asking regular folks to be my super PAC.

I would do away with super PACs. I think it's a cancer.

And in order for the Negro to fulfill his duty as a citizen it was often necessary that he fight for his self-affirmed right to fight.

the poor man, whom the law does not allow to take an ear of corn when starving, nor a pair of shoes for his freezing feet, is allowed to put his hand into the pocket of the rich, and say, You shall educate me, not as you will, but as I will...

To the baby who dies it makes no difference whether those who refused to protect her were proabortion or merely prochoice.

The rule of law is supposed to protect the weak against the strong and ensure fair treatment for all.

Doc Daneeka was Yossarian's friend and would do just about nothing in his power to help him.

I had the strongest trade association in the world backing me up.

There's no fuzzy middle ground. You either believe that women are people or you don't. It's that simple.

When William Johnson and slave walked down that long, winding American road toward freedom and justice, they didn't realize they would be speaking out for all those left behind. They learned that it would take hard work to make the words of the Declaration of Independence mean what they said. Ellen and William Craft were willing to do their part.

You must speak in the language of justice.

Instead of saying, 'I feel terrible. I feel guilty,' maybe [women] can take these results and advocate for [national] family-leave policies that create more options for mothers of babies," said researcher Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, the lead author of the 2002 day-care study, as she expressed her frustration with all the hand-wringing and guilt expressed in the study's wake by working mothers. "Every other industrialized nation has done it. Why can't we?

What I worry about most is the loss to young people. If no one speaks out for them, if they don't speak out for themselves, all they'll get for required reading will be the most bland books available. And instead of finding the information they need at the library, instead of finding the novels that illuminate life, they will find only those materials to which nobody could possibly object.

Counterracism was never an option.

I don't know about you, but I only have one life, and I don't want to spend it in a sewer of injustice.

The poets speak only poetry, not program, not policy, not even advocacy, only poetry. But the poetry exists in order to make available what the ideologues are unable to see and what the policy makers are unable to grasp.

Intercession, that is, intrusion into the courts of power on behalf of another, is central to the church's action in prayer.

Neutrality in a situation of oppression always supports the status quo.