Quotes About Advocacy

If you're not turned on by politics, politics will turn on you.

People like passion in politics.

As for being a voice in politics, I feel whether you are famous or not, busy or not, it's incumbent upon every citizen to participate in this government in any way we can.

I'm involved in issues, and issues are about grass-roots politics.

Grinding the faces of the poor seems to be the policy of the Greens.

I have always been involved in issue-based politics, not party politics - I was never really originally drawn to party politics.

Progressive politics is not something to be bolted on to another cause.

All of us in the Senate live in an iron lung-the iron lung of politics, and it is no easy task to emerge from that rarified atmosphere in order to breathe the same fresh air our constituents breathe.

The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.

A voteless people is a hopeless people.

It is my mission to ensure that HIV-positive children and children with AIDS are no longer overlooked and that they begin receiving the treatment and care they deserve.

When you stand up for yourself, you are standing up for everyone who will follow your positive example!

The deaf community is hungry to see itself in the most positive way.

Happy is he who dares courageously to defend what he loves.

HIV-positive people can lose custody of their children, lose their housing, and face intimate partner violence.

Be your best proponent, ally, and advocate.

Don't fight to be right, but fight when you are right.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.

Politics is not about power. Politics is not about money. Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning. Politics is about the improvement of people's lives.

Oratory is the power of beating down your adversary's arguments and putting better in their place.

We ask for nothing that is not ours by right, and herein lies the great moral power of our demand.

When we see people that are impoverished and people who are dealt an unfair hand, then if we have the power to help them, we should try to do that.