“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 power of your story may not lie in its drama, but in its absolutely perfect relationship to your cause.”

“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.”

“So we must work at our profession and not make anybody else's idleness an excuse for our own. There is no lack of readers and listeners it is for us to produce something worth being written and hea...”

“It is this simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiencesmakes them, as the poets tell us, 'charm the crowd's ears more finely.' Educated me...”

“A good traveler leaves no tracks. Good speech lacks fault-finding.”

“My father always said that too many words cheapened the value of a man's speech.”

“Words', he said, 'is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life. So you must simply try to be patient and stop squibbling. As I am telling you before, I know exactly what words I am wantin...”