Quotes about Advocacy
Yes, if you want to say that I was a drum major, say that I was a drum major for justice. Say that I was a drum major for peace. I was a drum major for righteousness. And all of the other shallow things will not matter. I won't have any money to leave behind. I won't have the fine and luxurious things of life to leave behind. But I just want to leave a committed life behind. And that's all I want to say.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Justice too long delayed is justice denied.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for the victims of our nation, and for those it calls enemy, for no document from human hands can make these humans any less our brothers.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
We've never made any gain in civil rights without constant, persistent, legal and nonviolent pressure. Don't let anybody make you feel that the problem will work itself out. For those who are telling me to keep my mouth shut, I can't do that.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
As I went through this period one night I picked up an article entitled The Children of Vietnam, and I read it. And after reading that article, I said to myself, Never again will I be silent on an issue that is destroying the soul of our nation and destroying thousands and thousands of little children in Vietnam. I came to the conclusion that there is an existential moment in your life when you must decide to speak for yourself; nobody else can speak for you.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
I will do everything in my power to make it so by outspoken agreement whenever proper, and determined opposition whenever necessary.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Justice at the deepest level had but few stalwart champions.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the wellbeing of a person or animal is at stake.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The struggle for rights is, at bottom, a struggle for opportunities.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Advocating the mere tolerance of difference between women is the grossest reformism. It is a total denial of the creative function of difference in our lives. Difference must be not merely tolerated, but seen as a fund of necessary polarities between which our creativity can spark like a dialectic.
— Audre Lorde
Your silence will not protect you.
— Audre Lorde
Speak out for those who cannot speak"—who in the church today realizes that this is the very least that the Bible requires of us?
— Eric Metaxas