Quotes About Advocacy

If you're lucky enough to be famous, then it's great if you can use your fame and the power your fame gives you to draw attention to things that really matter.

This position is untenable, and there can be no pause in the agitation for full political power and responsibility until these are granted to all the women of the nation.

The vote is a power, a weapon of offense and defense, a prayer.

Intercession is the most unselfish thing anyone can do.

We cannot ask in behalf of Christ what Christ would not ask Himself if He were praying.

There's a direct relationship between the ballot box and the bread box, and what the union fights for and wins at the bargaining table can be taken away in the legislative halls.

Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.

She badgered the doctors and nurses into giving you the kind of treatment they usually only give to people they actually care about.

We must remember that a right lost to one is lost to all.

As Nachmanides championed the cause of Maimonides against his enemies, so he took up the cause of Alfazi, against Sarachya Halevi and Abraham Ben David, who attacked Alfazi's Talmudic productions.

Some to the common pulpits, and cry out,"Liberty, freedom, and enfranchisement!"

Romans, countrymen, and lovers! hear me for my cause; and be silent, that you may hear.

Report me and my cause aright.

As Martin Luther King Jr. once said, "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

If to be feelingly alive to the sufferings of my fellow-creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever permitted to be at large.

God Almighty has set before me two Great Objects: the supression of the Slave Trade and the Reformation of Manners.

The happiest people I've ever met, regardless of their profession, their social standing, or their economic status, are people that are fully engaged in the world around them. The most fulfilled people are the ones who get up every morning and stand for something larger than themselves. They are the people who care about others, who will extend a helping hand to someone in need or will speak up about an injustice when they see it.

in fact, I'm an advocate for the straight edge. I don't live it, but I advocate it. So I don't encourage anyone to do any drugs, but on the other hand I believe in freedom.

Don't you run around here trying to make friends with somebody who's depriving you of your rights. They're not your friends, no, they're your enemies. Treat them like that.

You spend so much time barking up the civil-rights tree, you don't even know there's a human-rights tree on the same floor.

They call me "a teacher, a fomenter of violence." I would say point blank, "That is a lie. I'm not for wanton violence, I'm for justice."

I am glad to see so many young people thinking about social justice. I have been woke since the doctor slapped my ass.

Facebook and Twitter, online petitions, comments sent from apps such as Countable, and boilerplate emails that come from advocacy-group websites. Don't waste your time. Congresspeople don't trust these channels; they're too easy to hack, game, or blast out en masse.

Riverkeeper and other organizations have demonstrated, time and again, that some governmental officals, from the EPA and the state DEC to mayors, local councilmen and woman, routinely protect polluters and subvert the public interest.