Quotes About Advocacy

Originally, the prohibitionists had habitually referred to themselves as temperate, as men of temperance. By the 1880s and 1890s, however, this was no longer true: the prohibitionists now spoke of themselves as "radicals." It was no longer enough to attack hard liquor; denunciations of beer were now stepped up.

All or most of the prophets were socialists at heart.

Liberals or those who fight for egalitarianism are also on the same path as those who put people before money.

My ambition is therefore to become the voice and messenger of this change that everyone is constantly talking about.

The Christian role, as part of naming the name of the crucified and risen Jesus on territory presently occupied by idols, is to speak the truth to power and especially to speak up for those with no power at all.

she was known as an intellectual force for women's suffrage. She was a strong believer that women's rights and the abolition of slavery should be approached as one issue, a controversial proposition at the time. "Emancipation from every kind of human bondage is my principle," she said.

Life had been hard on him, but he was still moving, and he was still working, and he was still fighting for those who couldn't fight for themselves.

We are not asking for superiority for we have always had that; all we ask is equality.

Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.

When Christians argue ethical issues in the public square, they are not seeking to impose their values on everyone else, as they are often accused of doing. They are not seeking power and control for themselves. Instead they are working to protect human rights in ways that benefit everyone.

the disability rights movement is almost unified in opposing assisted suicide—precisely because disabled people know they are the prime targets of the death movement.

For the next quarters of a century, spiritualism, with its benevolent view of the soul and advocacy of social reform, was a serious concern for many suffragists.

documentary The Invisible War (which premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and

If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.

We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.

It will forever remain an accusation and a challenge to all men and women of conscience that it took as long as it has, before all of us stood up to say enough is enough.

I cherish my own freedom dearly, but I care even more for your freedom. From a response to an offer of conditional freedom, read by Zindzi Mandela at a rally, Jabulani Stadium, Soweto, South Africa,

The purpose of freedom is to create it for others. Prison desk calendar, written on Robben Island, June 2, 1979

To deny people of their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.

A new world will be won not by those who stand at a distance with their arms folded...

Men, I think, are not capable of doing nothing, of saying nothing, of not reacting to injustice, of not protesting against oppression, of not striving for the good of society and the good life in the ways they see it.

This is very personal for me," said Nicholas Alahverdian. "I was a legislative aide for the House of Representatives at the same time I was in the night-to-night program. I was hurt in the group homes and shelters, and legislators saw the bruises and cuts and decided something needed to be done."

We'll hear from him somewhere down the road. He says all that training he received in his own personal boot camp has gotten him ready. It's gotten him ready for war. It's a war with people who are trying to destroy kids' lives, says my new friend Nicholas Alahverdian.

Neither left nor right has focused adequately on maternal health.