Quotes About Advocacy

The greatest contribution you can make to this world is empowering the people who cannot speak for themselves.

A strong man stands up for himself, a stronger man stands up for others.

Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.

We must protect the forests for our children, grandchildren and children yet to be born. We must protect the forests for those who can't speak for themselves such as the birds, animals, fish and trees.

I might not be the same but that's not important. No freedom til we're equal. Damn right I support it.

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people's rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that alone.

Je hais vos idées, mais je me ferait tuer pour que vous ayez le droit de les exprimer. I hate your ideas, but I would have myself killed so that you could have the right to expres them.

I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ain't free, I ain't free.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

You should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

I may not agree with what you have to say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

I have only to speak for myself; to speak for freedom for myself; to determine for freedom for myself; and in doing so, I speak and determine for the freedom of every slave on every plantation, and for the fugitives on my right hand.

February 13 should be international condom day.

If you ever see me getting beaten by the police, put down the video camera and come help me.

I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.

sometimes … sometimes you have to tell them who you are. What you really think. You have to make them see us.

You have to stand up for some things in this world.

Some people don't realize there are inevitable wars that just have to be fought. Pacifism isn't always noble, and it isn't always intelligent. You have to stand up for some things in this world.

The USDA is not our ally here. We have to take matters into our own hands, not only by advocating for a better diet for everyone - and that's the hard part - but by improving our own. And that happens to be quite easy. Less meat, less junk, more plants.

I hope gay marriage will be legal in every state.

If the numbers we see in domestic violence were applied to terrorism or gang violence, the entire country would be up in arms, and it would be the lead story on the news every night.

A counter-theatric to state terror is an effective militant practice toward this end. This is "radical love" in the sense foregrounded by Cornel West, which bases its challenging love of the enemy not just upon the enemy's needs, but upon an advocacy and fight for "the unloved,"[4] for the oppressed who need effective techniques and institutions of justice into which they can be liberated.

Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance.