#advocacy

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth. ↗

— William Faulkner

#dissent #protest #truth #truth-telling #change

Social entrepreneurs are not content just to give a fish or teach how to fish. They will not rest until they have revolutionized the fishing industry. ↗

— Bill Drayton

#social-change #social-entrepreneurship #change

What we are trying to do is to look at all of those resources and say, well, would they be better spent on just advocacy and information, or can we make savings out of that and redirect them into savings. ↗

— Jay Weatherill

#better #information #into #just #look

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

#advocacy #agree #i #issue #life

From the right, you get demagogues shouting about brown-skinned anchor babies and clamoring to deport the undocumented. From the left, you get advocacy for the oppressed but otherwise, when it comes to national civic identity, mainly silence. ↗

— Eric Liu

#advocacy #anchor #babies #civic #comes

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

— Len G. Murray

#bit #came #late #me #option

It's okay to talk about birth, okay - then menstruation. I first started my advocacy for women's health in the field of reproductive freedom, and the next stage would be bringing menopause out of the closet. ↗

— Cybill Shepherd

#advocacy #birth #bringing #closet #field

Poverty is not only a lack of money, it's a lack of sense of meaning. ↗

— David Bornstein

#social-change #social-entrepreneurship #change

I know you can't live on hope alone; but without hope, life is not worth living. So you, and you and you: you got to give them hope; you got to give them hope. ↗

— Harvey Milk

#life