Quotes about Advocacy
How do we get people to heed the dire warnings of the people on the ground who have been fighting this danger for so long? How do we get them to take action?
— Jane Goodall
If you want peace, work for justice. If you want justice, defend life. If you want life, embrace truth.
— Pope John Paul II
God is truly on the side of those who work for social justice, especially when we accompany that work with the giving of the Gospel!
— Joni Eareckson Tada
Your work is your own private megaphone to tell the world what you believe.
— Simon Sinek
Now we're in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change - we're doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change - inch by inch, day by day.
— Barack Obama
At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes.
— Jimmy Carter
Wilberforce, because of his faith, stood up for African slaves. Bonhoeffer, because of his faith, stood up for Jews. That's Christianity to me.
— Eric Metaxas
Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked.
— Alfred Nobel
Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked.
— Alfred Nobel
Oh God, you know I have no money, but you can make the people do for me, and you must make the people do for me.
— Sojourner Truth
I aspire to be that, to be a voice of reason one day.
— Drew Barrymore
What is the point of standing up for rights in a world where few stand up for their responsibilities? Your rights will do you little good unless others are responsible
— Dallas Willard