Advocacy Quotes

Quotes on advocacy as empathy, risk, and grounded action.

One central idea runs through these quotes: advocacy, at its core, is described as an exercise in empathy, putting someone else's cause ahead of neutral distance.


That's risky territory for journalists, one quote warns, since stepping away from fact-seeking is a slippery journalistic slope. Another contrasts Washington's think tanks with governors who keep their feet on the ground.