Doris Haddock Quotes

The fire in the bellies of the good people who work for a more fair and just world for all of us - that spark never fails to inspire me and warm my heart.

We must stand up and do everything we can for the people who do not have a voice.

I consider myself a social justice person.

I'm an activist and advocate. I have empathy. It is hard to ignore causes.

Martin Luther King's legacy is never to be measured by bricks and mortar, but rather by the kind of lives that we live, and the kind of love and service that we render.

Fear is the greatest form of oppression. The best way to rise up in protest is to live your life to its fullest!

Charity is only a waystation on the road to justice.

If you choose to use your status and influence to raise your voice on behalf of those who have no voice; if you choose to identify not only with the powerful, but with the powerless; if you retain the ability to imagine yourself into the lives of those who do not have your advantages, then it will not only be your proud families who celebrate your existence, but thousands and millions of people whose reality you have helped transform for the better. We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.

I find myself moved by social justice issues. I'm not sure where that will lead me. I'm willing to nurture it.

Speaking out is important for me because everyone should be treated equally.

Let us rise in the moral power of womanhood; and give utterance to the voice of outraged mercy, and insulted justice, and eternal truth, and mighty love and holy freedom.

To throw oneself to the side of the oppressed is the only dignified thing to do in life.

You got to fight for quality art and equality and all the things that we're fighting for, the things we believe in. Choice and preference and all those things that we support. We don't want to give up that fight. You got to keep doing it.

In any human-rights campaign, everybody must do what they can.

We need leaders who will stand up for the little guy and listen once again.

Social justice is what drives me; it's why I'm here.

I want to be the voice and the vision for the poor and the powerless.

The vision of Israel's prophets became the pillar of fire leading the struggle in support of the weak and the different towards equality.

Wherever there was injustice, war, discrimination against women, gays and the disadvantaged, I did my best to show up and exert moral persuasion.

You can only appreciate freedom when you find yourself in a position to fight for someone else's freedom and not worry about your own.

We need someone who is going to stand up, speak up, and speak out for the people who need help, for the people who have been discriminated against.

At the same time that Donald Trump was facing a federal discrimination lawsuit for refusing to rent to minority families, Hillary Clinton risked her own safety to seek out the truth, to comfort the afflicted, and to make a home for justice where there was none. It was at the Children's Defense Fund that I met Hillary.

LGBT people are some of the bravest and most potent change agents and leaders I have encountered, and the most forceful defenders of the vulnerable and voiceless, because they know what it's like to be there.

There is a lot of suffering and injustice in the world, and there is also a great deal of hope. When you step forward and start speaking about what you see and what you want to change, you can begin living in that hope instead of despair.

I'm marching for women; I'm marching for the LGBT community. I'm marching for immigrants. I happen to fall into all three categories, so I'm marching for myself at the end of the day and for my family and my friends. And for whoever else deserves it.