A Quote by Joan Kirner

Dad was a great advocate for social justice and a very quiet advocate of the essential Labor values.

Joan Kirner

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Joan Kirner
Australian - Politician
June 20, 1938 - June 1, 2015

Ajamu Baraka is a human rights advocate and an international human rights advocate, who's been defending racial justice, economic justice, worker justice, indigenous justice, and justice for black and brown people all over the world, and in the United States has been helping to lead the charge against the death penalty here, and is an extremely eloquent and empowering person. And one of the great things about running with him is that we speak to all of America.

Jill Stein

I've got to put forward a very strong conservative voice, advocate for conservative values and advocate for principle in politics to restore faith in politics.

Cory Bernardi

People represent their constituencies and have particular interests based on who they are and the experiences that have formed them. You don't have to be a child to be an advocate for children. You don't have to be a woman to be an advocate for women. You don't have to be Hispanic to be an advocate for Hispanics.

Margaret Hoover

Martin Luther King Jr. was an impassioned advocate of economic justice as well as social justice.

Martin Luther King III

We need to advocate for social justice and reform so that all minorities are protected not only under the law but more importantly by our cultural values and ethic. The law cannot change the human heart. Government is limited in its ability to effect culture. This is the role and responsibility of the Church. Only Jesus can move us from hate to love.

Erwin McManus

Johnny Cash was a rebel, not only just in the musical sense, but he was somebody who was for the people, and an advocate for labor, for workers, for prisoners, people who have been trapped by the criminal justice system.

Michael Franti

If you're an advocate of gentleness, you're simplistic and naive. If you're an advocate of despair and hate, you're sophisticated.

Leo Buscaglia

If you take a job as a public advocate, then you must advocate publicly.

Scarlett Johansson

I'm not an advocate for everything that rolls out of the laboratory. I'm an advocate for things sanctioned by millennia of usage.

Terence McKenna

My position is that of detective, confessor, vaudevillian, advocate. And devil's advocate.

John J. McLaughlin

To advocate irrationality is to advocate that which is destructive to human life.

George H. Smith

The government is largely influenced by people who advocate corporate welfare and advocate these policies that create this two-tiered society...

Charles Koch

My faith motivates me to really try to work on behalf of and advocate for those who are least able to advocate for themselves.

Betsy DeVos

I don't advocate civil disobedience. I do advocate the role of an informed citizen to try to overturn when a court makes a mistake and gets an issue wrong.

Rick Santorum

It's to be a person who's able to shoot little arrows into sacred cows and knock politicians off their pedestals, to look out for hypocrisy, advocate for all sorts of things from social justice to peace.

Jonathan Shapiro

The Secretary-General must be a determined advocate for the values of tolerance and solidarity - universal values that are shared by cultures and religions around the globe.

Antonio Guterres

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