advocacy

It is not loving to impose our own grid onto others. We need to understand their situation and their needs accurately, and this comes from listening to them, not coming in with our own assumptions.

It's just as important to be around people that influence stable mental health as it is working towards it.

We are destroying all esthetic standards in the name of social justice.

There is an overflowing grace, for every great work.

It is time to embrace mental health and substance use/abuse as illnesses. Addiction is a disease.

I spend half my time comforting the afflicated, and the other half afflicting the comfortable.

Do all the work you while you still have strength.

Though either choice was good, one was truer to myself... Ultimately, I reflected on Geothe's invocation to 'make a commitment and the forces of the universe will conspire to make it happen' and chose the uncharted path.

It can be difficult to speak truth to power. Circumstances, however, have made doing so increasingly necessary.

Mom hadn't met Ramon; her advocacy was more arm's length - petitions, the website, letter writing, meetings with politicians. Her friend Hanna had formed a close friendship with Ramon though, visiting him as often as she could. Hanna told me that Ramon's greatest regret was that he wouldn't get to see his daughter grow up.And Jeremy's dad, who had that opportunity, was just throwing it away.It made me furious, and I couldn't let it go.

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.

Be nice to people... maybe it'll be unappreciated, unreciprocated, or ignored, but spread the love anyway. We rise by lifting others.

Great literature will insist upon its self-sufficiency in the face of the worthiest causes

Now I think that a true liberal will always prioritize individuals over the group, will always prioritize heresy over orthodoxy, will always prioritize the dissenting voice over the status quo.

Advocacy groups in the USA, as in other countries, may not be able to silence this hateful, cowardly and deceitful attack upon people__ humanity _ but they can put out the correct, factual, scientifically and medically accurate information in an attempt to counter the ignorance and to restore the balance.

To say nothing is saying something. You must denounce things you are against or one might believe that you support things you really do not.

There are people that are to champion the campaign and advocacy against the cycle of ungodliness and injustice in every nation.

We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.