Advocacy – Quotes

I am a teacher

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

art is not advocacy

art is not advocacy and advocacy is not art. Erica Jong

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

Carolyn Maloney is very,

Carolyn Maloney is very, very comfortable with a whole host of issues, but on women’s issues, she is really just one of the few people who understands that women are not only half of the world and half of the United States, but they need an advocate; that they have to have advocacy; that our … Read more

The only difference between

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

Every important change in

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

Be a half-assed crusader,

Be a half-assed crusader, a part-time fanatic. Don’t worry to much about the fate of the world. Saving the world is only a hobby. Get out there and enjoy the world, your girlfriend, your boyfriend, husbands wives; climb mountains, run rivers, get drunk, do whatever you want to do while you can, before it’s too … Read more

I use throughout the

I use throughout the term ‘liberal’ in the original, nineteenth-century sense in which it is still current in Britain. In current American usage it often means very nearly the opposite of this. It has been part of the camouflage of leftish movements in this country, helped by muddleheadedness of many who really believe in liberty, … Read more

And here we come

And here we come to the vital distinction between the advocacy of temperance and the advocacy of prohibition. Temperance and self-control are convertible terms. Prohibition, or that which it implies, is the direct negation of the term self-control. In order to save the small percentage of men who are too weak to resist their animal … Read more

UFO\’s attitude toward the

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