Quotes About Advocacy

I was once asked why I don't participate in anti-war demonstrations. I said that I will never do that, but as soon as you have a pro-peace rally, I'll be there.

With the help of dedicated Americans from our party, every party, and no party at all, I intend to mount that stairway to preach peace for our nation and world.

Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?

I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.

The man does not live who is more devoted to peace than I am. None who would do more to preserve it.

Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent... It is, in the deepest sense, a privilege as well as a duty to speak out to many thousands of people.

Gender based violence anywhere is a threat to peace and security everywhere.

I am a Doctor, but above all else I consider myself an activist for peace, justice and care for all people.

I will follow anyone... and invite everyone... too unite and defend the freedom of expression.

Indeed; peace literature is almost exclusively read, though to good effect, by pacifists, while what is needed is the canvassing of those who have not so far been won to the cause.

It's in my music, and its on my mind all the time. To spread love, healing peace and joy is my mission in life - and so I speak up.

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

I will follow anyone and tell everyone my message because it is urgent: Please humanity Protect Yazidis.

If I'm going to be staying up until 3 A.M., it should be for world peace and not shampoo sales.

Support your right to arm bears.

One day, we would like an end to pet shops and the breeding of animals.

It has become my mission to stop the insanity of wild cats as pets.

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

If you want to know where you would have stood on slavery before the Civil War, don't look at where you stand on slavery today. Look at where you stand on animal rights.

Philosophers should be, as Seneca put it, 'lawyers for humanity'. Make what you think and feel count; the examined life has global dimensions.

Only by zealously guarding the rights of the most humble, the most unorthodox, and the most despised among us can freedom flourish and endure in our land.

You don't approach a case with the philosophy of applying abstract justice-you go in to win

Poetry is my politics. It's an opportunity that gives me a way to speak.

As I am a poet I express what I believe, and I fight against whatever I oppose, in poetry.