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Quotes About Advocacy

She had to defend the people she loved the best.
~ Jeanne Birdsall
I'm happy to be helping people that are passionate about empowering parents for student learning.
~ Jeb Bush
If more people were actively engaged in advocating their positions I think we'd have a better society.
~ Jeb Bush
I first got involved with ending world hunger, and I got hip to the facts about it - what a huge problem it was and how it wasn't a matter of not having food or not knowing how to end it, but it was a matter of creating the political will.
~ Jeff Bridges
Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved?
~ Jeff Goodell
Nothing was more important than the cause, facts included.
~ Jeff Guinn
Also, Moss liked to rescue whatever animal or plant needed it. She believed they had earned it.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
I've been fighting my entire adult life for men and women everywhere to be equal and to be different. But there is one right I would not grant anyone. And that is the right to be indifferent.
~ Elie Wiesel
Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
~ Elie Wiesel
What all these victims need above all is to know that they are not alone; that we are not forgetting them, that when their voices are stifled we shall lend them ours, that while their freedome depends on ours, the quality of our freedom depends on theirs.
~ Elie Wiesel
We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silent encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
~ Elie Wiesel
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. -Elie Wiesel, writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1928) You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth. -H.L. Mencken, writer, editor, and critic (1880-1956)
~ Elie Wiesel
Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim
~ Elie Wiesel
We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere.
~ Elie Wiesel
As long as one dissident is in prison, our freedom will not be true. As long as one child is hungry, our life will be filled with anguish and shame. What all these victims need above all is to know that they are not alone; that we are not forgetting them, that when their voices are stifled we shall lend them ours, that while their freedom depends on ours, the quality of our freedom depends on theirs.
~ Elie Wiesel
i swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. we must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented
~ Elie Wiesel
What all these victims need above all is to know that they are not alone; that we are not forgetting them, that when their voices are stifled we shall lend them ours, that while their freedom depends on ours, the quality of our freedom depends on theirs.
~ Elie Wiesel
I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
~ Elie Wiesel
We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
~ Elie Wiesel
Prendi posizione. La neutralità favorisce sempre l'oppressore, non la vittima. Il silenzio incoraggia sempre il torturatore, non il torturato
~ Elie Wiesel
And that is why I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
~ Elie Wiesel
As long as one dissident is in prison, our freedom will not be true. As long as one child is hungry, our life will be filled with anguish and shame.
~ Elie Wiesel
I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always takes sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
~ Elie Wiesel
We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
~ Elie Wiesel