Quotes About Advocacy

Anyone who refuses to speak out off campus does not deserve to be listened to on campus.

The lunatic fringe in all reform movements.

Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.

In advocating any measure we must consider not only its justice but its practicability.

The loud-mouthed upholder of popular rights who attacks wickedness only when it is allied with wealth, and who never publicly assails any misdeed, no matter how flagrant, if committed nominally in the interest of labor, has either a warped mind or a tainted soul, and should be trusted by no honest man.

It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.

T]hose who are in a position of strength have a responsibility to protect the weak.

Protest is good; involvement is better; doing both is the best.

My mom had a sense that... there are always these barriers up for certain groups of people. That's always been core to how I understand the world and navigate it.

My entire history with the Navy have been trying to get the Navy to focus on families and child care and all the things that they were way behind in - housing, all of those things.

It was necessary, as a black historian, to have a personal agenda.

That's what the Senate is about. It's the last bastion of minority rights, where a minority can be heard, where a minority can stand on its feet, one individual if necessary, and speak until he falls into the dust.

You always appreciate it when people stick your neck out to support you.

For me, feminism is a movement for which the end goal is to make itself no longer needed.

If we have a right to healthcare, we should also have a right to the most fundamental of human needs: shelter.

I'm interested in elder justice and what we can do about elder abuse and neglect.

Building a home for neglected senior citizens is my long time dream.

I like to give a voice to others, especially things neglected or despised.

I am a voice for innocent animals who are being neglected and dumped by the millions at shelters.

Women are underrepresented and neglected in all aspects of the entertainment industry, so naturally, those of us who want to make a change use any opportunity to shine a light on someone when we can.

There should be marches in every neighborhood every day telling the people about the negativity of drugs and how the drugs help us to behave negatively.

I think it's very important to support those who can't help themselves - children, animals - and especially to do so in your own neighborhood.

I will fight for affordable housing for teachers, police, fire fighters, and families in all our neighborhoods.

Having been hit by drug addiction, knowing how many are hit by it and what a big problem it is in our neighborhoods and our culture, I feel a responsibility to do something. I can see what's wrong with the system - that we have to recognize mental illness as we do cancer or broken bones - and how we need to make it better.