Advocacy Quotes · Page 3

I am a teacher born and bred, and I believe in the advocacy of teachers. It's a calling. We want our students…

— Erin Gruwell

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

— Sharyl Attkisson

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

— Joel Miller

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

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

— Anthony Kennedy

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

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

— Hillary Clinton

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

— Aberjhani

More conservative advocacy work often encourages portrayals of trans people as people who deserve rights. Deservingness, of course, corresponds to national racial,…

— Dean Spade

After decades of persistent, courageous advocacy - often at risk to their own lives, livelihoods, and safety - African Americans succeeded in…

— Abigail Spanberger

There's been a 40-year effort on the far right to build up think tanks, academic programs, advocacy groups, to push a particular…

— Jane Mayer

The fight for free space-for wilderness and for public space-must be accompanied by a fight for free time to spend wandering in…

— Rebecca Solnit

A strong State Department to me means a corps of career officials who believe that their job is to advocate America's interests…

— John Bolton

You must endeavor to preach the Gospel by the life you live, by your actions and the choices you make, by the…

— Jonathan Roumie

The assertion of failure coming from such persons does not mean that Mr. Mill failed to promote the practical success of those…

— Millicent Fawcett

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, we did create Color of Change, an organization which focused on African-Americans in particular, because we…

— Van Jones

The biblical assertion that women are created in God's image and Boaz's advocacy for Ruth and Naomi necessarily mean women, then and…

— Carolyn Custis James

There are so many intellectual and moral angels battling for rationalism, good citizenship, and pure spirituality; so many and such eminent ones,…

— Aldous Huxley

I appreciate good criticism and I think it's really important. I don't like it when it's consumer advocacy, like how you should…

— Adam Rapp

If you and I go into a store to rob it, and I say "shoot," that's not protected. Like all judicial decisions…

— Noam Chomsky

And here we come to the vital distinction between the advocacy of temperance and the advocacy of prohibition. Temperance and self-control are…

— Felix Mendelssohn

“A great lawyer listens first, speaks second, and always thinks strategically." "Effective lawyering is less about winning arguments and more about crafting…

— Vorng Panha

“Mom hadn't met Ramon; her advocacy was more arm's length - petitions, the website, letter writing, meetings with politicians. Her friend Hanna…

— Robin Stevenson

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

I have no idea what I want to do for a career. But in terms of my advocacy work, I'm definitely going…

— Jazz Jennings

We learn together in teams. This involves a shift from a spirit of advocacy to a spirit of enquiry.

— Peter Senge

“Be an advocate for the people and causes important to you, using the most powerful tool only you have—your personal stories.”

— John Capecci and Timothy Cage

I love Larry Kramer's advocacy, and I love him as a person, and I think young people need to see that story.

— Ryan Murphy

I think the reason I've been so committed to advocacy is because I see so many people in pain.

— Olly Alexander

Build with advocacy, follow with influence. Your employees are your biggest brand advocates.

— Jay Baer

You need money to have advocacy in America. People that don't have money don't have advocacy.

— Anohni

Society as we know it is almost a conspiracy against human health. One of the main forces working to counteract that is…

— Stewart Udall

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

— Chelsea Manning

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

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

— John A. Daly

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

— Christine Pelosi

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

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

— Germany Kent

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

— Anonymous

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

— Phil Bredesen