Quotes about Advocacy
Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the struggle for equal rights.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Anywhere where the humanity of people is undermined, anywhere where people are left in the dust, there we will find our cause.
- Desmond Tutu
Let it not be said that I was silent when they needed me.
- William Wilberforce
The function of freedom is to free someone else.
- Toni Morrison
Not being heard is no reason for silence.
- Victor Hugo
The artist...is the voice of the people.
- Alice Walker
We must come to see with the distinguished jurist of yesterday that "justice too long delayed is justice denied."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I too am compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my particular hometown.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We had no alternative except that of preparing for direct action, whereby we would present our very bodies as a means of laying our case before the conscience of the local and national community.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and nonviolent pressure.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If I lived in a Communist country today where certain principles dear to the Christian faith are suppressed, I believe I would openly advocate disobeying these anti-religious laws.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I'm highly political. I spend an awful lot of time in the U.S. trying to influence decision-makers. But I don't feel in tune with British politics.
- Jane Goodall