Quotes About Advocacy

When I hear someone's in the civil rights business, I oil up my AR-25.

All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.

When business starts using its voice for the benefit of the country as a whole, not just in its narrow self interest, it can really be the force that can make the changes that need to be made.

Loyal customers, they don't just come back, they don't simply recommend you, they insist that their friends do business with you.

Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it.

It is the writer's business not to accuse and not to prosecute, but to champion the guilty, once they are condemned and suffer punishment.

It's very logical: There is proven ROI in doing whatever you can to turn your customers into advocates for your brand or business. The way to create advocates is to offer superior customer service.

I surely haven't only dealt with film people. As a lawyer, I also fought against evictions, or worked on leases - the unglamorous side of the business.

Word-of-mouth marketing is the best form of Free promotion

Activism has to remain active. That's the trademark slogan and that's the mantra, because if your foot doesn't stay on the pedal, the car will stop.

Even if animal experiments did result in a cure for AIDS, of which there is no chance, I'd be against it on moral grounds.

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Advocacy without inquiry begets more advocacy.

The snowball effect of reinforcing advocacy can be stopped, by beginning to ask a few questions. Simple questions such as, "What is it that leads you to that position?" and "Can you illustrate your point for me?" (Can you provide some "data" or experience in support of it?) can introject an element of inquiry into a discussion.

Reagan's activity in foreign affairs is not an improvisation, is not a chain of spontaneous initiatives, but a carefully planned and coordinated action, something of an integrated front of action under the slogans of world advocacy of the idea of freedom.

If we shrug our shoulders at the avoidable suffering of the weak and the poor, of those who are getting exploited and ripped off, we are not the left.

Animal Liberation is Human Liberation too.

we are just normal people, concerned about animals, the environment, or our health.

Target groups you care about that other people mostly don't, and take advantage of strategies other people are biased against using.

I couldn't care less about politics, the culture wars. My only interest is to get people to care about Darfurs and Rwandas.

As this chapter has shown, we are in the midst of an emergency in which appalling suffering is being inflicted on millions of animals for purposes that on any impartial view are obviously inadequate to justify the suffering.

They talk about this thing in the head; what do they call it? ["Intellect," whispered someone nearby.] That's it. What's that got to do with women's rights or Negroes' rights? If my cup won't hold but a pint and yours holds a quart, wouldn't you be mean not to let me have my little half-measure full?3

the misery and pain inflicted on animals that I described in the original 1975 edition of this book has not ceased.

Asking people to give more than almost anyone else gives risks turning them off. It might cause some to question the point of striving to live an ethical life at all. Daunted by what it takes to do the right thing, they may ask themselves why they are bothering to try. To avoid that danger, we should advocate a level of giving that will lead to the greatest possible positive response.