Advocacy Work Quotes

#1. More conservative advocacy work often encourages portrayals of trans people as people who deserve rights. Deservingness, of course, corresponds to national racial, gender and ability norms.

Dean Spade

#2. Ah, why Should life all labour be?

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#3. Is it not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#4. If you don't exist, then for you nothing exists.

Debasish Mridha

#5. I mean, I enjoy my work as an actor. But to make a difference in people's lives through advocacy and through supporting research - that's the kind of privilege that few people will get, and it's certainly bigger than being on TV every Thursday for half an hour.

Michael J. Fox

#6. Dr. Lourie's determined and compassionate advocacy led to new and improved services for thousands of children and families across the nation ... the Lourie Center has rededicated itself institutionally to continuing his important work.

C. Everett Koop

#7. Anyone who does anything for pleasure to indulge his selfish soul will surely burn in Hell.

Lenny Bruce

#8. Outside of my film work, my advocacy and activism is centered around inter-connection and inter-dependence.

Daryl Hannah

#9. I'd bet a month of dawn patrols those apprentices had something to do with it," Birchfall meowed. "Why else would they disappear back to ShadowClan without their mother?"
Dustpelt let out a snort of amusement. "I can just picture those three holding Blackstar down until he agreed.

Erin Hunter

#10. She probably enjoys cutting up everyone's happiness. Not to mention cutting up other parts of people; given her penchant for poisoning people and turning them into beech trees, I fail to see how she has reached thirty without leaving a trail of bodies behind her.

Patricia C. Wrede

#11. The splendor of that moment, its transcendent glory and aliveness, haunted him. He could thrust it aside by day, but it poisoned his dreams by night, calling to him and pleading with him to unlock the chains he'd bound about it.

David Weber

#12. Between my hatred of mall shopping and my mother's firm ideas about how a girl should dress, my style choices were pretty unenthusiastic: plaid skirts or whatever empire-waisted thingamabob was on sale at Sears.

Mary Gaitskill

#13. I always love to push myself, because I am not so self-confident.

Carine Roitfeld

#14. The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

Robert Frost

#15. I really love to drive. It's really hard for me to be a passenger, even though I get to look around a little bit more, but I've gotten really good at driving and looking.

Catherine Opie

#16. 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

#17. Do what you gotta do so you can do what you wanna do.

Denzel Washington

#18. We must learn not to give up when requirements are not met or when commitments are broken. To do so is a refusal to allow mistakes to be corrected and a demonstration of an unwillingness to forgive yourself or anyone else who needs forgiveness.

Iyanla Vanzant

#19. 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

#20. Nothing is true unless it works. And it has to work for you, not for someone else.

Raymond Charles Barker

#21. Life is difficult and painful, but if you keep moving forward the final destination makes all of the pain worth it.

Seth Adam Smith