Quotes About Advocacy

Blacks were "not yet freed from the bonds of injustice," Kennedy observed. They were "not yet freed from social and economic oppression." Then he added an insight that Black abolitionists, civil rights activists, and organizers had advocated for centuries: "And this Nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free.

I love nuts. I'm for nuts. I am nuts.

Mental illness is a cruel disease.

If our prayers for others mean anything at all, they cannot be cloistered away all the time in sanitised environments. Standing in the gap for the oppressed may well mean that it matters where we pray and how we pray, and that our prayers for the poor are worked out very practically.

I fought for peace in the fifties.

Teacher unions are an interest group that acts in defense of their own interests, which means the union bosses' interests, not the members.

Walter Brueggemann calls these parts of the Bible Israel's "countertestimony" . . . This spot-on term to name the dark side of the Bible, and which calls into question Israel's main storyline, comes from Walter Brueggemann's Theology of the Old Testament: Testimony, Dispute, Advocacy.

The xenophobic form sees Jews as different from others in some observable respects, and its adherents exhibit varying degrees of discomfort with this difference. The chimerical form sees Jews as dangerous to others in some imagined ways, and its exponents advocate doing something in response.

And do not show favoritism to a poor man in his lawsuit.

You shall not deny justice to the poor in their lawsuits.

So Moses brought their case before the LORD,

ëCursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow.í And let all the people say, ëAmen!í

“Go home,” the king said to the woman, “and I will give orders on your behalf.”

Now therefore, I have come to present this matter to my lord the king because the people have made me afraid. Your servant thought, ëI will speak to the king. Perhaps he will grant the request of his maidservant.

And he would add, “If only someone would appoint me judge in the land, then everyone with a grievance or dispute could come to me, and I would give him justice.”

“Very well,” Bathsheba replied. “I will speak to the king for you.”

When I heard their outcry and these complaints, I became extremely angry,

Mordecai also gave Hathach a copy of the written decree issued in Susa for the destruction of the Jews, to show and explain to Esther, urging her to approach the king, implore his favor, and plead before him for her people.

Esther replied, “This is my petition and my request:

Queen Esther replied, “If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it pleases the king, grant me my life as my petition, and the lives of my people as my request.

For my people and I have been sold out to destruction, death, and annihilation. If we had merely been sold as menservants and maidservants, I would have remained silent, because no such distress would justify burdening the king.”

For Mordecai the Jew was second only to King Xerxes, preeminent among the Jews and highly favored by his many kinsmen, seeking the good of his people and speaking peace to all his countrymen.

His sons are far from safety, crushed in court without a defender.

because I rescued the poor who cried out and the fatherless who had no helper.