Quotes About Advocacy

I was a father to the needy, and I took up the case of the stranger.

if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless because I saw that I had support in the gate,

But if you have something to say, answer me; speak up, for I would like to vindicate you.

to vindicate the fatherless and oppressed, that the men of the earth may strike terror no more.

May he vindicate the afflicted among the people; may he save the children of the needy and crush the oppressor.

Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; uphold the rights of the afflicted and oppressed.

Rescue the weak and needy; save them from the hand of the wicked.

Who will rise up for me against the wicked? Who will stand for me against the workers of iniquity?

For He stands at the right hand of the needy one, to save him from the condemners of his soul.

I am in favor of peace; but when I speak, they want war.

Rescue those being led away to death, and restrain those stumbling toward the slaughter.

Open your mouth for those with no voice, for the cause of all the dispossessed.

Open your mouth, judge righteously, and defend the cause of the poor and needy.

Learn to do right; seek justice and correct the oppressor. Defend the fatherless and plead the case of the widow.”

Your rulers are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love bribes and chasing after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, and the plea of the widow never comes before them.

to deprive the poor of fair treatment and withhold justice from the oppressed of My people, to make widows their prey and orphans their plunder.

But a noble man makes honorable plans; he stands up for worthy causes.

For Zionís sake I will not keep silent, and for Jerusalemís sake I will not keep still, until her righteousness shines like a bright light, her salvation like a blazing torch.

They have grown fat and sleek, and have excelled in the deeds of the wicked. They have not taken up the cause of the fatherless, that they might prosper; nor have they defended the rights of the needy.

Nevertheless, Ahikam son of Shaphan supported Jeremiah, so he was not handed over to the people to be put to death.

There is no one to plead your cause, no remedy for your sores, no recovery for you.

Ebed-melech went out from the kingís palace and said to the king,

Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land,

And there was a widow in that town who kept appealing to him, ëGive me justice against my adversary.í