Quotes about Advocacy

My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and nonviolent pressure.

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.

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.

Having an enemy gives you a great story to tell customers, too. Taking a stand always stands out. People get stoked by conflict. They take sides. Passions are ignited. And that's a good way to get people to take notice.

For animals that are overworked, underfed, and cruelly treated; for all wistful creatures in captivity that beat their wings against bars; for any that are hunted or lost or deserted or frightened or hungry; for all that must be put to death...and for those who deal with them we ask a heart of compassion and gentle hands and kindly words.

I would suggest that folks who have a platform of so-called celebrity, to the extent that they don't use that platform, or if they just use it for their own self-aggrandizement, it is certainly fed in a way that it goes to waste.

My task as a citizen is to get the government to do more good and less inefficient and wasteful work.

Love is not a weak, spineless emotion; it is a powerful moral force on the side of justice.

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

I believe that my work extending health care to women through Planned Parenthood is something that most people will respect and do respect.

I always have been an activist for things that were just authentically a part of my life, that I felt connected to.