Quotes About Advocacy

You go to court—God created attorneys to do this for you.

It's the best feeling in the world knowing there's someone in your corner. That no matter what and no matter how badly you mess up, they will always be on your side.

I know people get tired of hearing it but black people have got to keep saying it, throwing our conditions up into these people's faces until something is done about the way they have treated us. We've just got to keep it in front of their eyes and their ears like the Jews have done. We've got to make them know and understand just how evil the things are that they did to us over all these years and are still doing to us today.

The assertion of failure coming from such persons does not mean that Mr. Mill failed to promote the practical success of those objects the advocacy of which forms the chief feature of his political writings.

I am notorious for making impassioned speeches about things nobody cares about.

He who is silent toward violence diminishes the offerings.

Everybody now admits that apartheid was wrong, and all I did was tell the people who wanted to know where I come from how we lived in South Africa. I just told the world the truth. And if my truth then becomes political, I can't do anything about that.

Modest women have rights too, Coach,' I can't help adding.

I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it.

As a child of immigrant parents, as a woman of color in a white society and as a woman in a patriarchal society, what is personal to me IS political.

We need to raise our voices a little more, even as they say to us, 'This is so uncharacteristic of you.' Invisibility is not a natural state for anyone.

When my mom ran for the Senate, my dad was there for her every step of the way. I can still hear her saying in her beautiful voice, 'Why should women have any less say than men, about the great decisions facing our nation?'

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

Los grupos de interés que tienen un solo objetivo (los ecologistas, los antiinmigrantes, etcétera) ya no solo tratan de influir sobre las decisiones de quienes han llegado a gobernar por la vía de los votos sino que, con mucha frecuencia, ellos mismos tratan de obtener esos votos y ser elegidos para cargos de influencia.

Women couldn't identify with her and didn't support her.

The women address the young men in these terms, now you understand that we have been fighting as much for you as for ourselves.

If you are not a feminist, you do not deserve to live. Do you think you grew out of the ground?

Mort Sahl, while attending a preview of Otto Preminger's film Exodus, stood up and called out, "Otto, let my people go!

I have never had a vote, and I have raised hell all over this country. You don't need a vote to raise hell! You need convictions and a voice!

Pray for the dead, and fight like hell for the living.

When you saw me in the boxing ring fighting, it wasn't just so I could beat my opponent. My fighting had a purpose. I had to be successful in order to get people to listen to the things I had to say.

You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about.

And what is wrong with you that you fight not in the Cause of Allaah, and for those weak, ill-treated and oppressed among men, women, and children, whose cry is: "Our Lord! Rescue us from this town whose people are oppressors; and raise for us from You one who will protect, and raise for us from You one who will help.

Mary wasn't brilliant.She was a good woman who let her emotions guide her politics. She just couldn't help being for anybody who was agin something.