Quotes About Advocacy

Granting that you have more money than others, and that you don't deserve such wealth—but stopping there—allows you to settle the score by paying your taxes and advocating more redistribution. This reductive attitude toward inequality has the added comfort of justifying nasty judgments about the other side.

Defend institutions. It is institutions that help us to preserve decency. They need our help as well. Do not speak of "our institutions" unless you make them yours by acting on their behalf. Institutions do not protect themselves. They fall one after the other unless each is defended from the beginning. So choose an institution you care about—a court, a newspaper, a law, a labor union—and take its side.

Institutions do not protect themselves. They fall one after the other unless each is defended from the beginning. So choose an institution you care about—a court, a newspaper, a law, a labor union—and take its side. We tend to assume that institutions will automatically maintain themselves against even the most direct attacks. This was the very mistake that some German Jews made about Hitler and the Nazis after they had formed a government.

It is institutions that help us to preserve decency. They need our help as well. Do not speak of "our institutions" unless you make them yours by acting on their behalf.

Booble, the world must know of your ways. I will fight for your survival. One day people will understand and stop destroying your homes and killing your kind. I'll return next year, and protect you, Booble.

If I don't talk about my religion, if I say I'm not discussing it or different humanitarian things I'm working on, they're like, 'He's avoiding it.' If I do talk about it, it becomes, 'Oh, he's proselytizing.'

It never occurred to me that I was not going to challenge segregation.

The British people think that if someone is disabled, then they should get all the care and support that we can offer.

Once I came out in sports, I basically told myself, 'I'm coming out, officially. I wanted to be able to look in the mirror and tell myself that I was being true to me. I wanted to help the younger me, when I was a kid, give them somebody for them to look up to.

Being attorney general has truly allowed me to be a voice for justice for the people of Illinois and oftentimes the country - and I love it.

Oh God, you know I have no money, but you can make the people do for me, and you must make the people do for me.

I love working for the people of Ohio, and I have a lot more work to do as their senator.

In Ohio, we must put fairness to people and their families first, ahead of powerful special interests.

I got criticized at Ohio State, and my boss took up for me. I got criticized at Iowa State at times, and my boss took up for me.

My life is to travel, and my life is also to speak out about the horrors of an environment that is being abused at the hands of oil companies.

I'm just a feeble old man but I represent the spirit of speaking out.

It's wrong to put the drug lobby's interests ahead of older Americans.

I do think some older people in the gay community could be better influencers for gay youth, better educators. I made it a point to be that person.

I am on the International Board of Best Buddies, and I am also working with Special Olympics, and with The Arc to help people with disabilities become more independent and more included in their communities.

The things I have to say on and off the record are important, and I say them because I want to be heard.

There are online forms you can fill out to send to your lawmakers, demanding that nothing - nothing at all or in any way - be done about any guns whatever, anywhere.

I think so many doors have been opened for the gay community as far as the dangers and horrors of HIV. There is so much more out-ness now.

Sonya has opened up a huge light for me. Now that we travel so much together around the world, she's helped me open up and be so involved in the LGBTQ community.

I am an openly proud gay man.