Quotes About Advocacy

Voting isn't the most we can do, but it's the least.

She was a civil rights advocate. He was a feminist.

women in such anti-abortion groups are more likely to be deprived of birth control and so to need an abortion. They

Politics don't begin in Washington. Politics begin with those who are oppressed right here.

Without the power to make decisions about our own bodies, there is no democracy.

You white women, Mrs. Greene said kindly, as if reading my mind, if you don't stand up for yourselves, how can you stand up for anybody else?

Judy Collins sings about in "The Blizzard," or read Alice Walker's essay "My Father's Country Is the Poor." Each

Let our voices be heard. I hope they will not be shrill voices, but, I hope we shall speak with such conviction that those to whom we speak shall know of the strength of our feeling and the sincerity of our efforts.

I'm in favor of animal liberation. Why? Because I'm an animal.

Nobody wants his cause near as bad as he wants to talk about his cause.

It might be more worthwhile if we stopped wringing our hands and started ringing our congressmen.

...rights are not won on paper. They are won only by those who make their voices heard — by activists and militants. Silence never won rights. They are not handed down from above; they are forced by pressures from below.

That is new-womanish talk," he frowned. "Equal rights, the ballot, and all that.

Wydaje mi siÄ™ niekiedy, ?e caÅ'y Å›wiat, ?ycie, w ogóle wszytko obraÅ'o sobie siedzibÄ™ w mym wnÄ™trzu i uczyni? chce ze mnie swego rzecznika. CzujÄ™-cho? nie zdoÅ'am tego opisa?- caÅ'Ä… wielko?? owych spraw, kiedy jednak zaczynam mówi?, beÅ'kocÄ™ jak maÅ'e dziecko

Wydaje mi siÄ™ niekiedy, ?e caÅ'y Å›wiat, ?ycie, w ogóle wszytko obraÅ'o sobie siedzibÄ™ w mym wnÄ™trzu i uczyni? chce ze mnie swego rzecznika

It's not enough to say that you want equality, Ro. What do you intend to do about it?

Every war is a war against the child. —Eglantyne Jebb, 1876–1928 Founder of Save the Children, 1919, Jebb drafted the Declaration of the Rights of the Child, 1924

I hold that in every situation of injustice and oppression, the Christian--who cannot deal with it by violence--must make himself completely a part of it as representative of the victims.

Efficiency is a fact and justice a slogan.

A man charged with a crime has a right to a lawyer, and when the community is most strongly against him, his right is morally greatest.

Some three hundred leading Japanese citizens were removed from jail by these voluntary efforts of the missionary descendants. It wasn't that they liked Japanese, or that they feared Imperial Japan less than their neighbors. It was just that as Christians they could not sit idly by and watch innocent people maltreated.

If we know, then we must fight for your life as though it were our own-which it is-and render impassable with our bodies the corridors to the gas chamber. For if they come for you in the morning, they will be coming for us that night.

If we know, and do nothing, we are worse that the murderers hired in our name. If we know, then we must fight for your life as though it were our own - which it is - and render impasssable with our bodies the corridor the the gas chamber. For, if they take you in the morning, they will be coming for us that night.

If you're afraid to defend your convictions because you might get your ass kicked for it, you're not really fit to advocate for them.