Quotes about Advocacy
Den dat little man in black dar, he say women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wan't a woman! Whar did your Christ come from?" Rolling thunder couldn't have stilled that crowd, as did those deep, wonderful tones, as she stood there with outstretched arms and eyes of fire. Raising her voice still louder, she repeated, "Whar did your Christ come from? From God and a woman!
- Sojourner Truth
As you look at me and listen to me, please remember the often repeated truth that one prisoner of conscience is one too many.
- Aung San Suu Kyi
The worst service, I fancy, that anyone can do for truth, is to set silly people writing on its behalf.
- George Eliot
But love must be aggressively translated into simple justice.
- Jimmy Carter
But I hope you'll spend more time and energy supporting whatever you're in favor of than opposing whatever you're against.
- Bill Gates
Whatever other resources you may have, you can always use your voice and your vote to effect change.
- Bill Gates
There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.
- Booker T. Washington
Black and Jewish leaders have been a coalition of conscience.
- Jesse Jackson
PC advocates deny the existence of objective knowledge and morality, and thus see no point in employing moral suasion and logical argument to convince their fellow citizens that their viewpoint is correct. Their only means available is therefore using the instruments of political power, such as coercion, intimidation, marginalization, and name-calling. To put it philosophically: Ideas are not the power by which to change the world, but rather, the world's ideas are changed by power.
- Francis J. Beckwith
It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even to most enormous wrong; he may still properly have other concerns to engage him; but it is his duty, at least, to wash his hands of it, and, if he gives it no thought longer, not to give it practically his support.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most enormous, wrong; he may still properly have other concerns to engage him; but it is his duty, at least, to wash his hands of it, and, if he gives it no thought longer, not to give it practically his support. If I devote myself to other pursuits and contemplations, I must first see, at least, that I do not pursue them sitting upon another man's shoulders.
- Henry David Thoreau
Pro-life includes improving life after birth.
- Mike Huckabee