Advocacy Quotes
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Advocacy Quotes & Sayings
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I spend half my time comforting the afflicated, and the other half afflicting the comfortable.
— Wess Stafford
Simpson Rowe was quick to say that only perpetrators are responsible for assault, but assertiveness and self-advocacy are crucial defensive skills.
— Peggy Orenstein
If you're afraid to defend your convictions because you might get your ass kicked for it, you're not really fit to advocate for them.
— James Carlos Blake
Great literature will insist upon its self-sufficiency in the face of the worthiest causes
— Harold Bloom
We are more sensitive to losses than to gains; the pleasure of winning is less than the pain of losing.
— John A. Daly
Build with advocacy, follow with influence. Your employees are your biggest brand advocates.
— Jay Baer
Poverty is not only a lack of money, it's a lack of sense of meaning.
— David Bornstein
I'm passionate about people. I've spent my life in advocacy. People matter - whether or not we agree on the issue, people matter.
— Ann Marie Buerkle
Life's true value and meaning can only be known if we speak for the truth, not for our advocacy, but for the truth itself.
— Kasey Collin P. Dumdum
As my audience grew more diverse, I started interjecting social justice advocacy and commentaries about LGBT equality, and it just kept growing more.
— George Takei
Advocacy groups, politicians, and bureaucrats use the government to advance their private good instead of the common good.
— Joel Miller
Advocating well with a personal story is not a call to simply Insert Story Here.
— John Capecci And Timothy Cage
Not in My Backyard (NIMBY) does not work. Opiate addicts live in our communities and in our families & they work in our businesses.
— Steven Kassels
I'm not an advocacy journalist - that's not what I do. My role in journalism is to be able to engage the most interesting people with the best ideas.
— Charlie Rose
We learn together in teams. This involves a shift from a spirit of advocacy to a spirit of enquiry.
— Peter Senge
For the sake of public discourse, for the demands of the free market, and for the value we place in citizen advocacy, Rush Limbaugh must go.
— Christine Pelosi
Hings are never as complicated as they seem. It is only our arrogance that prompts us to find unnecessarily complicated answers to simple problems.
— Muhammad Yunus
Art is not advocacy and advocacy is not art.
— Erica Jong
When the search for truth is confused with political advocacy, the pursuit of knowledge is reduced to the quest for power.
— Alston Chase
As you become your own advocate and your own steward, your life will beautifully transform.
— Miranda J. Barrett
Advocacy without inquiry begets more advocacy.
— Peter M. Senge
If he could be hard on kings and cabinets, he was invariably kind to his colleagues.
— John Taliaferro
Washington, D.C. is full of think tanks, theoreticians and advocacy groups. Governors are the ones whose feet are on the ground.
— Phil Bredesen
I am a teacher born and bred, and I believe in the advocacy of teachers. It's a calling. We want our students to feel impassioned and empowered.
— Erin Gruwell
Challenging mass incarceration requires something civil rights advocates have long been reluctant to do: advocacy on behalf of criminals. Even
— Michelle Alexander
Your dog's health is ultimately in your hands.
— Jana Rade
He did what good lawyers always do. He shifted his argument in the direction his audience was already going.
— Jeffrey Toobin
The consciousness-raising, the advocacy, the passion, the youth of your movement is so critical.
— Hillary Clinton
We like it wet and we like it green, and we are the ones that they call obscene.
— Sai Marie Johnson
Advocates may write a review for you today but that same Advocate will continue recommending you for weeks, months, years. Advocacy has longevity,
— Rob Fuggetta
Outside of my film work, my advocacy and activism is centered around inter-connection and inter-dependence.
— Daryl Hannah
Statism and the advocacy of reason are philosophical opposites. They cannot coexist - neither in a philosophic system nor in a nation.
— Leonard Peikoff
It is time to embrace mental health and substance use/abuse as illnesses. Addiction is a disease.
— Steven Kassels
It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.
— Thomas Carlyle
The power of your story may not lie in its drama, but in its absolutely perfect relationship to your cause.
— John Capecci And Timothy Cage
OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our advocacy.
— Ambrose Bierce
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
The weapon of the advocate is the sword of the soldier, not the dagger of the assassin.
— Alexander Cockburn
There are no final words in science. But there you have the deeply anti-scientific temper of the global warming advocacy groups: Final words.
— George F. Will
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
Society as we know it is almost a conspiracy against human health. One of the main forces working to counteract that is the trailsman.
— Stewart Udall
We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
— Elie Wiesel