Quotes About Advocacy

Nobody should teach the black man in America to turn the other cheek, unless someone is teaching the white man in America to turn the other cheek.

A feminist man is a bit like a vegetarian: it's the humanitarian principle he's defending, I suppose.

Cobden was the greatest statesman and prophet of the century. His speeches are an inspiration. A man whose disciple I am willing to confess I am.

Somehow strangely the vice of men gets well represented and protected but their virtue has none to plead its cause - nor any charter of immunities and rights.

There are a lot of idiots in this country, and they deserve representation as much as the next man.

As long as the writer cannot write for the two billion men who are hungry, he will be oppressed by a feeling of malaise.

I almost lost my best friend to anorexia. I am lending my voice as an entertainer, a mom, and a friend because I want to bring great awareness to this cause.

I was just your average hockey mom, and signed up for the PTA because I wanted to make my kids' public education better.

I grew up with a feminist mom and the understanding that, as someone coming from a position of (relative) privilege, it was my job to speak up when things weren't fair.

I am a mom as well as a senator!

Let us wage a moral and political war against war itself, so that we can cut military spending and use that money for human needs.

Environmentalists changed the word jungle to rain forest, because no one would give them money to save a jungle. Same with swamps and wetlands.

Enthusiasm for conservation can be fashioned into a nasty weapon for those who dislike business on general principles.

I contribute a large amount of money to the Southern Poverty Law Center, so I'm on their mailing list for all their Klan Watch newsletters. I'm very well aware of White Power movements in America.

I'm particularly committed to the political people who needed defense. I understand that they're fighting a bigger war than just, "Let me go get some money for cocaine tonight."

If I feel strongly, I say it. I know I can do more good by being vocal than by staying quiet. I'd have a whole lot more money if I lied, but I wouldn't enjoy spending it.

Donate time, food, or money to organizations that fight the good fight. We can act individually for the collective good. We can all do something.

Global warming competes with cancer and competes with AIDS for a finite amount of money. Nobody ever won that fight by saying: My issue isn't important.

Republicans talk a good game about veterans, but when it came to put money on the line to protect our veterans, frankly, they were not there.

Latinos care about education, yes, so we need reform, not just money.

When I was in jail I could only think about what the average person has to go through - the person who has no power to go to the press or no money to hire a lawyer.

Samuel Gompers has spent his life trying to keep labor from working too hard and has succeeded beyond his wildest dreams.

Talk about putting your money where your mouth is. It's not right. Someone's gotta say it. They said it. I applaud them.

Big corporations have money and power to make sure every rule breaks their way people have voices and votes to push back.