Quotes About Advocacy

It feels good to rail against what is wrong in the world, to fight the good fight, to beat the drum of making a difference. I am right there with you.

Advocacy groups, politicians, and bureaucrats use the government to advance their private good instead of the common good.

We absolutely must battle with every bit of determination we can muster to root out the harm that would warp the souls and spirits of children in our world.

One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.

A good lawyer knows how to shut up when he's won his case.

I'm passionate about the issues that I care about and I'm a really good listener.

I've thought about what is an alternative word to feminism. There isn't one. It's a perfectly good word. And it can't be changed.

As I said in one of my songs, we're still abolishing slavery, but nobody says it's a good thing. Nobody justifies it.

It is a common error to imagine that to be stirring and voluble in a worthy cause is to be good and to do good.

Me and Spike Lee are good friends. I got a lot of respect for Spike just because of who he is, what he stands for, and the support for that organization. Even when it was bad he was there.

If there's some kind of rock star status, would I be irresponsible if I didn't somehow use it for a continued greater good? I'm always involved in some way with reaching the public.

The good news is that we have a very active part of America that wants some radical progress.

Civil liberties, good. Lawyers, bad.

The first duty of government is to protect the powerless from the powerful.

I often traveled to Nicaragua to speak against repressive policies by the Sandinista government.

Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals' suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote.

Well, take the evolution of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It began as hackers' rights. Then it became general civil liberties of everybody - government stay away.

I realize that I cannot stand by silently as my government executes its citizens. If I do not speak out and resist, I am an accomplice.

I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.' I think I'd like them to remember me by saying, 'She opened government to everyone.'

Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.

We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans.

I stand with the Navajo Nation and call upon the U.S. Government to do what is right and clean up this mess.

Words don't change children's lives. Real action by the government and equality would.

All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights.