Quotes About Advocacy

As priests, we represent our nations, our neighborhoods, our families and our friends before the throne of Almighty God.

He is a lover of his country who rebukes and does not excuse its sins. —FREDERICK DOUGLASS

The battle was first waged over the right of the Negro to be classed as a human being with a soul; later, as to whether he had sufficient intellect to master even the rudiments of learning; and today it is being fought out over his social recognition.

If the underdog were always right, one might quite easily try to defend him. The trouble is that very often he is but obscurely right, sometimes only partially right, and often quite wrong;

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain, is floating in mid-air, until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

If the underdog were always right, one might quite easily try to defend him. The trouble is that very often he is but obscurely right, sometimes only partially right, and often quite wrong; but perhaps he is never so altogether wrong and pig-headed and utterly reprehensible as he is represented to be by those who add the possession of prejudices to the other almost insuperable difficulties of understanding him.

If adolescent pregnancy prevention is to become a priority, then our strategy, as advocates, must contain two key elements: civic engagement and education.

To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.

In this country, the only way a minority can get anything done is to make a little noise.

You don't have to be anti-man to be pro-woman.

I'm highly political. I spend an awful lot of time in the U.S. trying to influence decision-makers. But I don't feel in tune with British politics.

Farm animals are far more aware and intelligent than we ever imagined and, despite having been bred as domestic slaves, they are individual beings in their own right. As such, they deserve our respect. And our help. Who will plead for them if we are silent? Thousands of people who say they 'love' animals sit down once or twice a day to enjoy the flesh of creatures who have been treated so with little respect and kindness just to make more meat.

If we do not do something to help these creatures, we make a mockery of the whole concept of justice.

Half a lifetime ago, I was forced at knifepoint to a grabage dump and gang-raped.

No feminist whose concern for women stems from concern for justice in general can ever legitimately allow her only interest to be the advantage of women.

My role [as a war correspondent] is to bring a voice to people who are voiceless [and] to shine a light in the darkest corners of the world.

I am going to sing lesbian love songs and support gay rights no matter what. The rest is public relations.

Great businesses have a point of view, not just a product or service. You have to believe in something. You need to have a backbone. You need to know what you're willing to fight for. And then you need to show the world.

We're trying to win the right to vote and we have to focus the attention of the world on that. We can't do that making legal cases. We have to make the case in the court of public opinion.

An intelligent person fights for lost causes, realizing that others are merely effects

I've just come to the conclusion that all women should wear whatever they want to wear and that all men should wear whatever they want to wear. If they have a problem with that, they should take it up with United Nations.

If you are an LGBT+ person and you come out, you have to go through your knight's quest to create ground for yourself, to create a space for yourself, to stand there and say, "I exist. I have no reason to feel guilt or shame. I am proud to exist, and while I'm not perfect, I deserve to exist in society just like anyone else.

Life is hard when you have no one to stick up for you. People push you around, purely because there's no one to stop them from pushing you around.

For animals that are overworked, underfed, and cruelly treated; for all wistful creatures in captivity that beat their wings against bars; for any that are hunted or lost or deserted or frightened or hungry; for all that must be put to death...and for those who deal with them we ask a heart of compassion and gentle hands and kindly words.