Quotes About Advocacy

Students set up desks where you could sign petitions for legalizing marijuana or declare yourself in favor of homosexuality and the protection of whales; students thronged by.

No one is more empowered by free speech than the historically marginalized and dispossessed. I'll repeat Frederick Douglass's declaration from 1860: free speech is the "great moral renovator of society and government." He argued that "slavery cannot tolerate free speech" and that "five years of its exercise would banish the auction block and break every chain in the South.

Thus, the proclaimed goal of affirmative action advocates is to level the playing field. It is defined this way to highlight the left's claim that traditional civil rights solutions have failed to achieve real equality, by which is meant equality of results. Traditional civil rights solutions were focused on the fairness of the institutional process, the elimination of legal barriers to political power and individual opportunity.

You're believing in love more than I do; you're standing up for someone who is less than deserving.

no matter how hard it was to understand, she would be on my side. Fiercely. Unconditionally.

well, LOVE and gay rights - three cheers for straight girls who max out on helping gay guys)

There's much protest, but it falls on deaf ears.

Os gays de hoje, os gays de ontem, somos todos o mesmo incômodo, o mesmo pessoas. Não pessoas, na verdade. Só uma coisa sobre a qual gritar.

It's all well and good to stay in the institutions you care about, but wouldn't it be nice to feel that the institution, in turn, cared about you, or at least wasn't hell-bent on your eradication or, failing that, the legislating away of your rights?

Well the nation may forget; it may shut its eyes to the past, but the colored people of this country are bound to keep fresh a memory of the past till justice shall be done them in the present."39

Though I am not rich, I am not absolutely poor. . . . I am working now less for myself than for those around me. —FREDERICK DOUGLASS, MAY 6, 1868

Let it be remembered, there is no luxury so exquisite as the exercise of humanity, and no post so honorable as his, who defends the rights of man

feminist Abby Kelley to the executive committee by a tally of 557 to 451.

We have but one weapon unimpaired and that is the weapon of speech, and not to use it . . . is treason to the oppressed.

The world howls for social justice, but when it comes to social responsibility, you sometimes can't even hear crickets chirping.

The indifference of the many, combined with the active hatred of the few, has sealed the fate of animals.

Confessions of an Eco-Warrior

The Noted Activist

A little war of defense for helpless things was going on inside her. People ought to have some regard for helpless things. She wanted to fight about it.

I abide where there is a fight against wrong.

I'm against abortion.

We will never see a day when women of means are not able to get a safe abortion in this country.

I'm ready to do any kind of work, as long as it absorbs my passion for making a just world and equal world.

Child poverty is more than an abstract problem to me. It's something I know all too much about.