Quotes About Advocacy

Don't be a witness. Be an activist.

You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.

Since the age of four, I've been exploring what I can do with the written word: everything from championing literacy and youth voice to raising awareness about world hunger.

He (Dave Brower) is an emotionalist in an age of dangerous reason.

Even if I have to stand alone, I will not be afraid to stand alone. I'm going to fight for you. I'm going to fight for what's right. I'm going to fight to hold people accountable

Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.

I have come to believe that one thing people cannot bear is a sense of injustice. Poverty, cold, even hunger are more bearable than injustice.

Wheeler served them as their defender against the law itself, before which they were ciphers, and so felt themselves—and he could do this only as their friend.

I hope I take up the cause of all oppressed people rather warmly.

When i tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.

So never be afraid, never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion; against injustice, lying and greed. If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the other thousands of rooms like this one today and tomorrow and next week will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.

The Forgotten Man is delving away in patient industry, supporting his family, paying his taxes, casting his vote, supporting the church and the school, reading his newspaper, and cheering for the politician of his admiration, but he is the only one for whom there is no provision in the great scramble and the big divide.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

Comrades, let me remind us again that our union cannot be stronger than we make it; and a weak union serves no useful purpose.A weak union is a terrible disaster!

Let me on behalf of the leadership of TUC Rivers State; pledge to continue to stand by the workers and the ordinary people as well as on our original ideology as a mass movement.

The most important lesson to learn about devil's advocacy isn't the need for a formal contrarian position; it's the need to interpret criticism as a noble function.

North Carolina State Hospital Association, said: "An awful lot of people for a long time have had their heads in the sand on this issue, and it's time to do the right thing. It's as simple as that.

If you want to stand up against wrongdoing, if you want to bring about change, do it in a way that doesn't bruise a man's pride. You'll have a better chance of success.

For the sake of my daughters in the centuries to come, I must now stand up against this unjust action you are asking of me.

When trying to persuade a school board to endorse the program, three is the critical number, said Irvine. "If you get one person going in to the board, he is the one crazy person. He's easy to ignore. If you get two people going in, well, the crazy guy's got a buddy, so we can still ignore [them]. But if you get three, that's a committee. It's hard to ignore a committee. A committee makes recommendations; you've at least got to consider it.

You have to see everyone in relationship to you. Just because you understand the shit in someone else's life doesn't mean you don't stand up for your own.

You have to see everyone in relationship to you. Just because you understand the shit in someone else's life doesn't mean you don't stand up for your own

I think people should be angry at things that are worthy of anger. Injustice is outrageous and deserves outrage.

There are some situations one simply cannot be neutral about, because when you are neutral you are an accomplice. Objectivity doesn't mean treating all sides equally. It means giving each side a hearing.