Quotes About Advocacy

I cannot guarantee people absolute fairness. I can only promise that I will do everything in my power to secure fairness or create a greater degree of fairness.

As men, we all have something to give. We all have the power to do our own part to stop the global pandemic of violence against women and girls. It is holding us all back.

I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.

In Psalm 72, Solomon prays for power and fame but he says the purpose of influence is to speak up for others and one is the immigrant. He doesn't delineate between legal and illegal.

I see so many activists... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication.

It is not enough just to open the door to the rooms of power. We have to get inside and rearrange the furniture!

Statistics in the hands of activists have power.

I shuddered to think how completely the insane were in the power of their keepers, and how one could weep and plead for release, and all of no avail, if the keepers were so minded.

Well, I'm not involved in polemics. I never wanted to have any position of power, and I don't have it.

Believe in the power of your own voice.

The only way change will ever happen is if we speak up, and we have to know that it actually has an impact. Because we have a lot more power than we think we do, I think.

I want to have some effect on the way the world works in whatever way I can, and I also want to have the power to help get the movies that I think are important made.

When you leave good people afraid to speak on behalf of justice, however awkwardly or insensitively, those unafraid to speak will rise to power.

I learned the power of storytelling and the responsibility that people with influence have to speak out

I've been blessed with the opportunity to express the views of black people who otherwise don't have access to power and the media. I have to take advantage of that while I'm still bankable.

I think that power comes in numbers, and we're in an industry where the actors need to have a bigger voice.

I was the first Republican in the country to support the president's Clean Power Plan.

Children must be protected not because they are innocent but because they are powerless.

I went to law school because I understood what the power of the law is to make a difference in people's lives.

Family values stand up to injustice and power outside the household.

People underestimate the power we have to make real change for animals; it's with our vote. Representatives may not care about animals, but they care about our vote and that is our leverage.

God loves and defends those with the least economic and social power, and so should we.

We can't afford not to educate girls and give women the power and the access that they need.

There is a special place in hell for women that will not help one another.