Advocacy Quotes · Page 2

“Many politicians and advocates say they want to help people, they do, themselves.”

— C.A.A. Savastano

“Genius cannot simply float in the clouds, it must also operate down on earth.”

— Irène Némirovsky

“Psychologically, action is the antidote to despair.”

— Ken Breniman

The option of solicitor advocacy came on the scene a bit too late for me.

— Len G. Murray

I've always been interested in political service and community advocacy.

— Michael Tubbs

“The art of advocacy is to lead you to my conclusion on your terms.”

— Adam M. Grant

“It can be difficult to speak truth to power. Circumstances, however, have made doing so increasingly necessary.”

— Aberjhani

There's a time for debate and a time for consensus. There's a time for advocacy and time for first principles.

— Anthony Kennedy

We're in a very unique time where noise equals, in a lot of people's perception, advocacy. And I fundamentally disagree with that.

— Ivanka Trump

Advocacy groups, politicians, and bureaucrats use the government to advance their private good instead of the common good.

— Joel Miller

The consciousness-raising, the advocacy, the passion, the youth of your movement is so critical.

— Hillary Clinton

I'm a very philanthropically oriented individual. There are a lot of causes that I support, and I'm a big fan of advocacy.

— Brandon Victor Dixon

As reporters set aside their traditional role as fact seekers and veer into advocacy, they find themselves on a slippery journalistic slope.

— Sharyl Attkisson

“Mental illness is not something you misunderstand in this era. Get educated because bias is no different than racism.”

— Shannon L. Alder

Weary of wily politicians who say one thing and do another, voters and advocacy groups insist presidential contenders commit to the cause…

— Mark McKinnon

“The enormity of problems like hunger and social injustice can certainly motivate us to act. We can be convinced logically of the…

— John Capecci and Timothy Cage

It's okay to talk about birth, okay - then menstruation. I first started my advocacy for women's health in the field of…

— Cybill Shepherd

Even the Declaration of Independence starts out all men are created equal, so I see my advocacy as part of an effort…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

When it comes to peace, we need to facilitate peace-makers' personal engagement and their genuine desire to bridge the gap between advocacy…

— Widad Akrawi

From the right, you get demagogues shouting about brown-skinned anchor babies and clamoring to deport the undocumented. From the left, you get…

— Eric Liu

“Though either choice was good, one was truer to myself... Ultimately, I reflected on Geothe's invocation to 'make a commitment and the…

— Jacqueline Novogratz

Carolyn Maloney is very, very comfortable with a whole host of issues, but on women's issues, she is really just one of…

— Eleanor Smeal

“Over the past century, researchers have studied business entrepreneurs extensively.. In contrast, social entrepreneurs have received little attention. Historically, they have been…

— David Bornstein

“We do science because we want to understand the truth. It is a constant, ongoing pursuit to understand our own biology so…

— Alice Callahan

“I now think that was distanced me from Tricia and from the Rape Crisis Center was their use of generalities. I did…

— Alice Sebold

Painting is something that takes place among the colors, and one has to leave them alone completely, so that they can settle…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“It's not enough for us to mourn and resist the suffering and oppression of 2SLGBTQIA+ folks. We must also dare to imagine…

— Jamie Arpin-Ricci

There are few genuine conservatives within the U.S. political system, and it is a sign of the intellectual corruption of the age…

— Noam Chomsky

One particular debate that I have seen play out again and again is whether trans people who have more traditional gender expressions…

— Dean Spade

To the scientists of the Renaissance, your critic was really your ally, helping you advance upon reality. Critics in science are not…

— Martin Seligman

Washington, D.C. is full of think tanks, theoreticians and advocacy groups. Governors are the ones whose feet are on the ground.

— Phil Bredesen

“You can not protect the environment unless you empower people, you inform them, and you help them understand that these resources are…

— Anonymous

“Be nice to people... maybe it'll be unappreciated, unreciprocated, or ignored, but spread the love anyway. We rise by lifting others.”

— Germany Kent

I do not subscribe to the advocacy journalism school. It's not who I am and not who CNN wants me to be.

— John King

For the sake of public discourse, for the demands of the free market, and for the value we place in citizen advocacy,…

— Christine Pelosi

“We are more sensitive to losses than to gains; the pleasure of winning is less than the pain of losing.”

— John A. Daly

I'm not running from the left; I'm running from the bottom. I'm running in fierce advocacy for working-class New Yorkers.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

I don't think that I'm embracing any kind of leadership for transparency or trans advocacy.

— Chelsea Manning

Additional problems are the offspring of poor decisions. When inquiry and advocacy are combined, the goal is no longer 'to win the…

— Peter Senge

We as a music ­community have our own issues about advocacy, copyright, intellectual ­property, being paid fairly for the work that we…

— Neil Portnow