Quotes About Advocacy

I have been vocal about various social causes in India and has actively taken up matters of gender equality, cruelty against animals, discrimination towards COVID-19 warriors, etc to the Parliament.

Deep in my heart, I care about social-justice warriors.

It's hard to stop wars, and it's hard to stop the abuse of the planet and all of those things. I guess you just do what you can do and voice your concern.

I have lost count of how many wars I have actively and largely ineffectively tried to stop.

We have no one to stand up for the fighters' rights. If something bad were to happen, no one backs him, and it's just him alone, and everything gets washed out. We need people to stand up and fight for it.

My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.

Rich people march on Washington every day.

I've just concluded - since President Obama endorses the same-sex marriage, advocates homosexual people, and enjoys an attractive countenance - thus if it becomes necessary, I shall travel to Washington, D.C., get down on my knee, and ask his hand.

I didn't come to Washington D.C. sit on the sidelines.

The institution of the family has very few friends in Washington. There are lobbyists in Washington for every possible entity, from the possum-growers of America to every kind of crazy thing. There's somebody in Washington paid to advance the cause of that particular business, but there's not a lot of support for the family.

I am joining the hundreds of thousands who shall be marching in the Virtual March on Washington to Stop Global Warming in order to demonstrate the concern that we all hold for the future of our planet and all the living things - flora, fauna, human and animal - that exist upon it.

If you can't be a populist in Arkansas, you ain't going to be a populist in Washington.

I suggest that ten thousand Negroes march on Washington, D.C., the capital of the Nation, with the slogan, 'We loyal Negro American citizens demand the right to work and fight for our country.'

I believe Barack Obama has shown a deep conviction to help those most in need, even if their voices are not always the ones heard the loudest in Washington.

Who are you to deny me the right to love?

I have put my pen at the service of some of the most persecuted and misunderstood people in the world.

Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.

As a public interest lawyer, your fund of injustice will never be empty.

I feel that women's voice, once it is heard, will activate and make audible the other small voices as well.

Bad things happen when good people remain silent.

There is a kind of virtue that lies not in extraordinary actions, not in saving poor orphans from burning buildings, but in steadfastly working for a world where orphans are not poor and buildings comply with decent fire codes.

The closeted homosexual is far less likely to demand fair or just treatment for his kind, because to do so would call attention to himself.

John Stuart Mill, highlighting how a small group may be victimized by a larger group

Repeatedly and consistently, the Bible calls us to stand with the weak and oppressed, to speak out for those who for one reason or another can't speak for themselves. God is a God of justice and mercy, and He calls us to walk in justice and mercy with Him, to have His heart, His compassion and empathy.