Quotes about Advocacy
The seminal right of the modern civil rights movement was the right to vote. My father fought so diligently for it. Certainly Congressman John Lewis and many others, Hosea Williams, fought for it as well.
— Martin Luther King III
Many have fought for and even lost their lives to end segregation, to win the right to vote. It disappoints me to now have to cajole people to register and to vote.
— Jesse Jackson
When you're in the National Football League, and you get this window where all eyes are on you, you can use that. You can use that platform for good.
— J. J. Watt
We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.
— Ronald Reagan
There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women. (Keynote speech at Celebrating Inspiration luncheon with the WNBA's All-Decade Team, 2006)
— Madeleine Albright
Intercession is about putting ourselves in other's shoes or having sympathy with others. But intercessions are about having the mind of God and see things through His perspective
— Oswald Chambers
When a man's cause is good, it will sufficiently plead for itself, yea, and for its master too.
— John Bunyan
I'm going to fight for every person in America who believes government should serve the people, not the donors and not the special interests.
— Donald Trump
It's up to me to promote my faith and somebody else to promote theirs. Let the government just protect our right to do so.
— Max Lucado
The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.
— Jesse Jackson
This is about respect for women, the judgments that women make and their doctors about their reproductive health. It's an important part of who women are, their reproductive health.
— Barack Obama
When I took on the drug companies and the insurance companies for universal health care coverage, they went after me with a vengeance.
— Hillary Clinton