Quotes About Advocacy

Anything worthwhile is worth fighting for,' Claire said. 'Not always with guns and stuff. But with … taking a stand. Right?

Books cannot fight for themselves.

For the sake of all the others who are like you, but less strong and less gifted perhaps, many of them, it's up to you to have the courage to make good.

Give us also the right to our existence!

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

You represent them?

Grownups shouldn't turn their backs on children.

All girls [should read] THE BREADWINNER by Deborah Ellis. ~ Malala Yousafzai

If we are to save a society in deep trouble, many changes are necessary. In terms of rights, two changes are mandatory. First, far more Americans need to ask what is good for society? before asking what is good for my group? Second, we need people to speak up on behalf of the one truly helpless group—children. For this to happen, people must start to think of children as human beings, not as property.

However, one big obstacle to truth-telling is that believers in causes, including good causes, that don't place truth as a central value, will be very tempted to lie on behalf of their cause.

Providing information about how persons may end their life is not a crime, at least in the United States, or I would have spent many years behind bars!

I wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

To be neutral in a situation of injustice is to have chosen sides already. It is to support the status quo.

If you are neutral in times of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality

If you are neutral in a situation of injustice you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

Until women are deeply involved in opposing the violence in the world, we are not going to bring it to an end. All women must be equally at the forefront of the movements for social justice. And

Don't raise your voice- improve your argument.

To be impartial... is indeed to have taken sides already... with the status quo.

I didn't want to Ã¢â'¬Â¦ to have to ask him to defend me." He stared at her, his face blank with incomprehension. He shook his head slowly, not taking his eyes away from her. "What in God's name d'ye think a man is for?" he asked at last.

I have the LGBT audience behind me, and there's all these people that I want to make proud, and I want to do well aside from just myself.

The state has no right to cast people aside because they are sick or disabled.

Assault in any form is never OK, and I want to be very clear on that.