“You may have come to advocacy on your own, it may be part of your job or you may have been asked to put a face on a campaign by serving as its spokesperson. You may be acting as a lone crusader or ...”

“You dont need to be a poet, a performer, a writer, or a journalist to tell your story powerfully. You do, however, need to elevate your language in ways that will bring your story to life clearly a...”

“What does it mean to be an advocate?In its broadest sense, advocacy means any public action to support and recommend a cause, policy or practice. That covers a lot of public actions, from displayin...”

“The space between the private and the public is the nexus of the personal and the social, if not political. Its where we meet the strong or subtle cultural censors who attempt to define what commun...”

“Advocating well with a personal story is not a call to simply Insert Story Here.”

“A recent survey of Top Five Fears places public speaking alongside identity theft and mass shootings. In the 1980s, it completed with nuclear destruction. In the 1970s, shark attack.”

“I don't think that God says, "Go to church and pray all day and everything will be fine." No. For me God says, "Go out and make the changes that need to be made, and I'll be there to help you.”

“Our work is not about transcending this world to get to a better place; our work is to be fully present here; to heal ourselves, and our planet in the spirit of service and compassion.”

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”

“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.”

“Advocacy groups in the USA, as in other countries, may not be able to silence this hateful, cowardly and deceitful attack upon peoples humanity but they can put out the correct, factual, scientifi...”

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

“What are the messages that you are entertaining?”

“Peace can only survive when fed peace.”

“You embody the strength of 10,000 moons and your life will be a testament of it. Ase”