Quotes About Advocacy

People no longer want to see themselves primarily as consumers, but as activists.

If you really care about children then why would you want to keep families from adopting them?

I will put my heart and soul into making sure that the care your son or daughter or mum or dad receives is the same I would want for my own family.

If people want me to go round and talk to governments and others then I feel that responsibility which is why I am on the road a good deal of the time and why I'm not slowing down.

Feminist, whatever the definition, whatever you call yourself - I am, I'm not - none of us want little girls being forced into early marriage before they're 12.

Hillary Clinton wants to push for equal pay and for paid family leave and for better and cheaper childcare.

For me, artists and people that are passionate are fighting for what they believe in and what they want, and that's always appealing. I find that really interesting.

I am part of the left; I feel loyal. I don't want to do things that will be damaging to what I believe in.

Whenever I see people getting a bad deal I want to step in and do something about it. Of course, this is not pure altruism - there's a profit to be made too.

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.

It's time for fathers to war for their kids more than the culture wars for your kids.

In the name of God and humanity I protest!

How can one not speak about war, poverty, and inequality when people who suffer from these afflictions don't have a voice to speak?

The anti-war movement should turn itself into a pro-democracy movement

My role [as a war correspondent] is to bring a voice to people who are voiceless [and] to shine a light in the darkest corners of the world.

We are advocates of the abolition of war, we do not want war; but war can only be abolished through war.

Well, I was a very strong opponent of the war, in fact, one of those who went door to door to my colleagues and thus achieved 60 percent of the Democrats voting no against this war.

Identifying feminism as women's enemy only furthers the ends of a backlash against women's equality, simultaneously deflecting attention from the backlash's central role and recruiting women to attack their own cause. Some

Father spoke up and said that he was an abolitionist of the old stock, that the blacks were his brothers and his equals, and that he would rather see the union dissolved and the

We are not endeavoring to chain the future, but to free the present. We are not forging fetters for our children, but we are breaking those our fathers made for us. We are the advocates of inquiry, of investigation, and thought. This of itself, is an admission that we are not perfectly satisfied with our conclusions. Philosophy has not the egotism of faith.

with courage and resolve and the refusal to allow those without voices to remain unheard.

I would rather be alone and a loud voice for action than be silent.

I think I'm an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist.

Latinos care about education, yes, so we need reform, not just money.