{"quotes":[{"text":"..Things are never as complicated as they seem. It is only our arrogance that prompts us to find unnecessarily complicated answers to simple problems.","author":"Muhammad Yunus","tags":["advocacy","complication","poverty-alleviation","simplicity","social-change"],"id":6461,"author_id":"Muhammad+Yunus"},{"text":"Mental illness is not something you misunderstand in this era. Get educated because bias is no different than racism.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["advocacy","autism-spectrum-disorder","bias","bringingchangetomind-com","civil-rights","discrimination","educate","education","end-discrimination","human-rights","mental-health-bias","mental-illness","mental-illness-discrimination","stand-up-for-what-is-right"],"id":52434,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Advocacy groups in the USA, as in other countries, may not be able to silence this hateful, cowardly and deceitful attack upon people’s 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.","author":"Christina Engela","tags":["advocacy","an","and","attempt","balance","correct","countries","factual","hateful","humanity","medically","other","out","people","restore","the","this","to","upon","usa"],"id":71136,"author_id":"Christina+Engela"},{"text":"Not in My Backyard (NIMBY) does not work. Opiate addicts live in our communities and in our families \u0026 they work in our businesses.","author":"Steven Kassels","tags":["addiction-and-recovery","addiction-treatment","advocacy","drugs","politics","social-change"],"id":89659,"author_id":"Steven+Kassels"},{"text":"When it comes to peace, we need to facilitate peace-makers' personal engagement and their genuine desire to bridge the gap between advocacy knowledge and skills necessary to differentiate between theory and practice in the field of conflict management.","author":"Widad Akreyi","tags":["advocacy","conflict","conflict-management","engagement","knowledge","peace","peacemakers","quotes","skills","war","widad-akrawi"],"id":96390,"author_id":"Widad+Akreyi"},{"text":"It's just as important to be around people that influence stable mental health as it is working towards it.","author":"Kierra C.T. Banks","tags":["advocacy","anxiety-qoutes","depression","inspirational","journey","life-journey","mental-health-awareness","mental-health-qoutes","social-justice-power","tranquility"],"id":98027,"author_id":"Kierra+C.T.+Banks"},{"text":"Great literature will insist upon its self-sufficiency in the face of the worthiest causes.","author":"Harold Bloom","tags":["advocacy","continuity","politics","reading","timelessness"],"id":100391,"author_id":"Harold+Bloom"},{"text":"We Lesbian Avengers have built this shrine. It stands for our fear. It stands for our grief. It stands for our rage. And it enshrines our intention to live fully and completely as who we are, wherever we are. We take the fire of action into our hearts. And we take it into our bodies. And we stand, here and now, to make it known that we are here, and here we will stay. Our fear does not consume us. Their fire will not consume us. We take that fire, and we make it our own.","author":"Kelly J. Cogswell","tags":["activism","advocacy","fire","lesbian","shrine"],"id":101711,"author_id":"Kelly+J.+Cogswell"},{"text":"The power of your story may not lie in its drama, but in its absolutely perfect relationship to your cause.","author":"John Capecci and Timothy Cage","tags":["activism","advocacy","advocate","story","storytelling"],"id":150437,"author_id":"John+Capecci+and+Timothy+Cage"},{"text":"We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.","author":"Elie Wiesel","tags":["activism","advocacy","protest"],"id":181959,"author_id":"Elie+Wiesel"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":39,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}