Advocacy Quotes

• Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Multiple Sclerosis is obviously close to my heart and I'm determined to make a difference in the lives of people who suffer from the disease by raising the profile of MS, as well as raising funds for advocacy and research.

  Ann Romney

  Heart, Differences, People

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• Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great, you can be that generation

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspiring, Peace, Fall

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.178, Pan Macmillan

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• Our society and especially those who suffer injustice need to feel the impact of our commitment to justice and our advocacy for the vulnerable.

  Carolyn Custis James

  Commitment, Justice, Suffering

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• Every important change in our society, for the good, at least, has taken place because of popular pressure-pressure from below, from the great mass of people.

  Edward Abbey

  Taken, People, Important

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• True advocacy is born from culture, not technology or marketing.

  Jay Baer

  Technology, Marketing, Culture

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• 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

  Pistols, Strange, Influence

  Thomas Carlyle, James Anthony Froude (2012). “Reminiscences”, p.13, Cambridge University Press

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• 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

  Issues, People, Passionate

  "Meet the Lawmaker Rep. Ann Marie Buerkle (R-N.Y.), 25th District". Interview with Kris Kitto, thehill.com. April 4, 2011.

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• People who have committed to a service/advocacy role will tell you that some of the sublimest pleasure they have ever experienced comes in the context of that work. You get way more than you give.

  Charles Garfield

  People, Giving, Roles

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

  Jay Baer

  Social Media, Influence, Employee

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• Strong advocacy for education, health care and worker safety will be indispensable if they are to get their fair share of President Bush's austere budget for the next fiscal year.

  Arlen Specter

  Strong, Health, Years

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• When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be any where but at home, amongst his new thoughts, doctrines, and modes of reasoning.

  Gerrit Smith

  Home, Men, Good Man

  Gerrit Smith (1837). “Letter of Gerrit Smith to Rev. James Smylie: Of the State of Mississippi”, p.8

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• The only difference between 'propaganda' and 'education,' really, is in the point of view. The advocacy of what we believe in is education. The advocacy of what we don't believe in is propaganda.

  Edward Bernays

  Believe, Views, Differences

  Edward L. Bernays (2015). “Crystallizing Public Opinion”, p.121, Open Road Media

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• The assertion of failure coming from such persons does not mean that Mr. Mill failed to promote the practical success of those objects the advocacy of which forms the chief feature of his political writings.

  Millicent Fawcett

  Writing, Mean, Political

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• 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

  Would Be, Women's Health, Fields

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• UFO's attitude toward the subject is very similar to mine. It's not an advocacy; its philosophy is more I want to believe this, but I want it proved.

  Dwight Schultz

  Attitude, Philosophy, Believe

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• The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

  Steve Jobs

  Design, Understanding, Dots

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.41, Prabhat Prakashan

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

  Peter Senge

  Inspiring, Team, Moving

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

  Chelsea Manning

  Thinking, Kind, Transparency

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our advocacy.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Truth, Stress, Splendor

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.173, University of Georgia Press

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• Even the Declaration of Independence starts out all men are created equal, so I see my advocacy as part of an effort to make the equality principle everything the founders would have wanted it to be if they weren't held back by the society in which they lived and particularly the shame of slavery.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Men, Effort, Independence

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

  Hillary Clinton

  Passion, Movement, Youth

  Hillary Rodham Clinton (2017). “What Happened”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• Additional problems are the offspring of poor decisions. When inquiry and advocacy are combined, the goal is no longer 'to win the argument', but to find the best argument.

  Peter Senge

  Winning, Poor Decisions, Goal

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• Painting is something that takes place among the colors, and one has to leave them alone completely, so that they can settle the matter among themselves. Their intercourse: this is the whole of painting. Whoever meddles, arranges, injects his human deliberation, his wit, his advocacy, his intellectual agility in any way, is already disturbing and clouding their activity.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Pain, Color, Intellectual

  Letter to his wife (October 21, 1907). "Letters on Cézanne". Book by Rainer Maria Rilke, 1952.

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• Idea-Advocacy Matrix highlights a couple of things: that good ideas need to be "sold" if they are ever going to see the light of day and bad ideas sometimes do quite well because of the skills of the proponent to sell them.

  John Daly

  Couple, Skills, Ideas

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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