Quotes About Advocacy

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Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open.

We ought to get the RSPCA after them. It's cruel to push dogs through coal-holes and leave them there in the darkness. For all we know they have no food or drink.

Lawyers. Everyone should have one.

Good words will not get my people a home where they can live in peace and take care of themselves. I am tired of talk that comes to nothing. It makes my heart sick when I remember

Still, let us not disarm, even in unsatisfactory times. Social injustice still needs to be denounced and fought. The world will not get better on its own.

In the countryside the systematic requisitioning of food (which the urban Sansculottes had been the first to advocate) alienated the peasantry.

Silence is a powerful enemy of social justice.

I'm thankful for the work that feminists like Gloria Steinem have done. I am a feminist, but the geography for women today is vastly different than it was in the '60s.

it's not often in life that you can misbehave for the good of the cause

Universal human rights is the most precious jewel of humanity. Most of it is buried in the mud. It is our responsibility to uncover it and make a safe and beautiful world free from discriminations and inequalities.

It isn't my aim just to make a racket My aim is that things should change

she talked until she was hoarse about the basic rights of every citizen: equal education, equal pay, equal representation, and equal participation. Everyone quoted her and lots of people hated her,

The Watcher lived for one thing and one thing only; fighting for the oppressed.

La seule minorité qui n'a pas besoin de quelqu'un pour défendre ses droits, ce sont les milliardaires

In a perfect world, I don't think it [one's sexual orientation] is anyone else's business, but I do think there is value in standing up and being counted.

As long as there is rape... there is not going to be any peace or justice or equality or freedom. You are not going to become what you want to become or who you want to become. You are not going to live in the world you want to live in.

So you're like… living in the margins, making your case in the margins, trying to make a difference maybe, from the margins...but nobody really wants to listen to you. To see you. 'Cause you're not the story they want to tell.

Too often government responds to the whispers of lobbyists before the cries of the people.

I am against the death penalty.

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Fellow Englishman Charles Spurgeon was a fierce opponent of social injustice, especially slavery, and joined other evangelicals in crusades to eliminate poverty, hunger, and homelessness, especially for children.

In 2009, at the Vancouver Peace Summit, I met a supporter of Free the Slaves, an NGO dedicated to eradicating modern-day slavery; weeks later, I flew down to Los Angeles and met with the director of Free the Slaves; thus began my journey into exploring modern-day slavery.

To a billion people around the world surviving on just a dollar a day, the question of what to eat tonight is more about life and death than about recipes. The struggle of poor people around the globe weighs heavily on me, especially now that I am a mother, which is why I work with Oxfam.