Quotes About Advocacy

Highly educated" Negroes denounce persons who advocate for the Negro a sort of education different in some respects from that now given the white man.

When you hear a man talking, then, always inquire as to what he is doing or what he has done for humanity. Oratory and resolutions do not avail much. If they did, the Negro race would be in a paradise on earth.

Somewhat more broadly, I will suggest that animals should be permitted to bring suit, with human beings as their representatives, to prevent violations of current law.

I always thought of myself as a moderate liberal, a fighter for peace and justice. I never thought of myself as being all that far out.

I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that.

I support gay marriage. I support gay marriage because I believe Conservatives support the institutions of commitment.

I give away something up to $500 million a year throughout the world promoting Open Society. My foundations support people in the country who care about an open society. It's their work that I'm supporting. So it's not me doing it.

Neither the first nor the second Lopez ever allowed anything to be said against Francia.

deserved a voice?

I'm beginning to feel that same absolute determination that we cannot -must not!- simply sit back and accept cruelty and injustice. If we do, we become part of it.

I always felt from the beginning that you had to defend people you disliked and feared as well as those you admired.

Lawyers spend a great deal of time shovelling smoke.

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.

Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.

Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

It is a newspaper's duty to print the news and raise hell.

Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.

We fought hard. We gave it our best. We did what was right and we made a difference.

What after all has maintained the human race on this old globe, despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind, if not the faith in new possibilities and the courage to advocate them?

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

All reformers are bachelors.

Whatever little we have gained, we have gained by agitation, while we have uniformly lost by moderation.

Women must think strategically about creating ongoing pressure for change.