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Advocacy Quotes

"The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat."

"The goal of education should be to enable people to become active and engaged citizens, questioning and organizing against injustices."

"Is it a crime to fight for what is mine?"

"I speak not for myself but for those without a voice... those who have fought for their rights... their right to live in peace, their right to be treated with dignity, their right to equality of opportunity, their right to be educated."

"The people who feel the most passion about an issue are hardly ever the people who are under-nourished"

"True leadership is when you are willing to risk your power and voice so that all of ours can be heard"

"With fame comes opportunity, but it also includes responsibility to advocate and share, to focus less on glass slippers and more on pushing through glass ceilings"

"I was an activist long before I even knew what the word meant"

"The more youth begin to recognize that they have a voice, the more change is possible"

"It takes time for people to get to know a cause or an organization"

"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will"

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

"I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented."

"Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable"

"Pick a movement. Pick a revolution. And join it"

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