Quotes About Advocacy

We are the party that hears the stories of people, the struggles.

I've seen the needless struggles that deaf children and deaf people face, and that gave me the impetus to write.

The more I'm in the public eye and I get opportunities to speak out about the condition the better. So many people don't understand the condition, they don't understand the struggles we have to deal with.

I've definitely seen the rise of more charities and Mental Health Awareness Week, and people in general seem a lot more open about struggles that they've faced.

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I'm going to press on for equality. I'm going to press on for the sake of our children. I'm going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I am going to press on.

My father would never have said about any of his children you shouldn't express your opinions. But it's the way in which you express them. And for me to do - to speak at demonstrations and be as strident as I was now I see wasn't right. And it - there was a better way to do it. I could have written articles.

It's not simply to say, 'My colleagues are wrong, and I would do it this way,' but the greatest dissents do become court opinions.

Public action should seek to expand the set of opportunities of those who have the least voice and fewest resources and capabilities.

With the success of a show, you get an opportunity to call attention to things that you believe in.

My motivation for helping is that I come from a culture that isn't given a lot of opportunity.

All I did was ask for rights. I didn't attack anyone. I didn't harass anyone. I didn't oppose the system or the country or the authority. All I said is, 'Why can't I drive?'

Not only do the Amy Schumers of the world and the gun control groups who support her fail to provide real gun safety lessons, they oppose them.

I oppose a constitutional amendment against gay marriage.

I think it is incumbent on all human beings to oppose injustice in every form.

I think that freedom of speech is just that, and groups have the right to support or oppose issues that are going to affect them as well as individuals do.

I oppose discrimination against homosexuals, but I do not support them, either.

I support the rights of all people and oppose discrimination and intolerance against the LGBTQ community. I see this as a matter of basic human rights.

Never in my life would I have expected USDA to be opposed to farmers and ranchers.

For many years as a foreign correspondent, I not only worked alongside human rights advocates, but considered myself one of them. To defend the rights of those who have none was the reason I became a journalist in the first place. Now, I see the human rights movement as opposing human rights.

There are serious issues of inequality and injustice in this country... I stand with those opposing such bigotry.

It won't take 40 years for opposition to same-sex marriage to dissipate.

The cry of the oppressed has entered not only into my ears, but into my soul, so that while I live, I cannot hold my peace.

I want to be the voice of the people; black, white, everyday, oppressed people. A person trying to make it and to do it right.

Justice, particularly for the oppressed and marginalized in our society, never comes without great effort and sacrifice.