Quotes about Advocacy

I realized quickly what Mandela and Tambo meant to ordinary Africans. It was a place where they could come and find a sympathetic ear and a competent ally, a place where they would not be either turned away or cheated, a place where they might actually feel proud to be represented by men of their own skin color.

I believe in the universality of freedom and therefore want to be involved in the freedom movement.

It's time for fathers to war for their kids more than the culture wars for your kids.

If you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else.

Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.

God Almighty has set before me two great objects: the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners.

If the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is to live, our babies must live. Our mothers must choose life. If we refuse to answer the cry of mercy from the unborn, and ignore the suffering of the mothers, then we are signing our own death warrants.

Then they came for me - and there was no one left to speak out for me.

Then they came for me - and there was no one left to speak out for me.

I think where political issues invade moral situations, spiritual leaders have to speak out.

To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards of men.

If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.