Quotes About Advocacy

The power I exert on the court depends on the power of the power of my arguments, not my gender

I encourage people to find and use the power of their voices just as much when I do not agree with those voices as when I do agree with them.

You have so much power to bring awareness, prevention and change.

True leadership is when you are willing to risk your power and voice so that all of ours can be heard.

Believing a person deserves a defence is not the same as doing anything in your power to get him off scot-free.

Books have played a role in almost every one of the world's great civil and human rights movements, but only because people who read them decided to act. Reading brings with it responsibility.

Mom's reaction to this chaos isn't a surprise. No matter how high the bill that she is paying or that Medicare is paying for her, she will say to me or herself: "What happens to all the people who can't afford this? It's just not fair." Universal

Universal health care was always an issue Mom cared about, and the more care she got, the angrier she became that good medicine wasn't available for everyone in the United States. The pharmacy almost always provoked a political discussion or diatribe.

Eleanor Rathbone and the Politics of Conscience by Susan Pedersen,

It was partly for this reason that Musonius advocated a simple diet. More precisely, he thought it best to eat foods that needed little preparation, including fruits, green vegetables, milk, and cheese. He tried to avoid meat since it was, he thought, a food more appropriate for wild animals.

When I tell any truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.

Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them.

I am firmly of the opinion that people who can't speak have nothing to say. It's one more thing we do to the poor, the deprived: cut out their tongues … allow them a language as lousy as their life

The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind.

Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgement.

The people of Nebraska are for free silver and I am for free silver. I will look up the arguments later.

With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

Only people with full stomachs become environmentalists.

Polite conversationalists leave no mark save the scars upon the Earth that could have been prevented had they stood their ground.

Adams has shown a nearly inexhaustible desire, leavened with an equal amount of sheer talent- five decades' worth and counting- in an unrelenting effort to stabilize, strengthen, and improve the standing of indigenous peoples, minority groups, and the larger society as well. He is an exemplary Native activist, indeed.

It is not my place to offer pep talks, aphorisms, or dictums. But if I had to give one piece of practical advice it would be this: Find something that you love that they're fucking with and then fight for it. If everyone did that--imagine the difference. (50)

If only non-hypocrites are going to fight for the environment then it will be an army of none. (60)

Environmentalism or conservation or preservation, or whatever it should be called, is not a fact, and never has been. It is a job.

The job of the union, he insisted, could be reduced to a simple idea: the protection of the slowest and least efficient worker.