Quotes About Advocacy

Man's highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.

A true man does not only stand up for himself, he stands up for those that do not have the ability to.

There are good men everywhere. I only wish they had louder voices.

No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public.

When you see stuff that's wrong... it's just wrong, man. You gotta point that out.

The people who could do most to improve the situation of so many women and children are in fact, men.

The fight for the right to life is not the cause of a special few, but the cause of every man, woman and child who cares not only about his or her own family, but the whole family of man.

Long before many of us were even conscious of our own degradation, these men [Marcus Garvey and W. E. B. DuBois] fought for African national and racial equality.

The proportion of men must be reduced to and maintained at approximately 10% of the human race.

When the men are silent, it is our duty to raise our voices in behalf of our ideals.

I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less.

I'm a man that has a vision as to how this world can be, and I've gathered myself through all the ordeals that I had to make me a well-rounded person and still fight for justice.

When the man who feeds the world by toiling in the fields is himself deprived of the basic rights of feeding, sheltering, and caring for his own family, the whole community of man is sick.

I'm a dyed-in-the-wool party man. I don't know just what party I am in right now, but I am for the party.

If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.

The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.

I spent 15 minutes writing Stand By Your Man, and a lifetime defending it.

Believe in no other God than the one who insists on justice and equality among men.

I'm not just a black man, I'm a brotha. I love my people. When I'm on the air I am fully aware that I am not just representing myself but representing us.

It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.

It seems to me like stealing, for men and women to live in the world and do nothing to make it better.

Mr. President, I wish to speak today, not as a Massachusetts man, nor as a Northern man, but as an American. I speak for the preservation of the Union. Hear me for my cause.

It is a worthy thing to fight for one's freedom; it is another sight finer to fight for another man's.

You're a witness. You're always standing around watching what's happening, scribbling in your book what other people do. You have to get in the middle of it. You have to take sides. Make a contribution to the fight. Any fight. The one you believe in. Until you do, you'll never be a writer, Eugene.