Most Romans believed that their system of government was the finest political invention of the human mind. Change was inconceivable. Indeed, the constitution’s various parts were so mutually interdependent that reform within the rules was...

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...

It is time to embrace mental health and substance use/abuse as illnesses. Addiction is a disease.

We disclose our funding, Common Cause does not. So it’s rather ironic that we would be attacked on that basis. But at the end of the day, just because Common Cause doesn’t agree with the...

..things are never as complicated as they seem. It is only our arrogance that prompts us to find unnecessarily complicated answers to simple problems.

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...

AIM Global takes its advocacy role very seriously. We see this video as another chance to educate the general public about a misunderstood and often maligned technology. We have a responsibility to our members to...

As you become your own advocate and your own steward, your life will beautifully transform.

Though either choice was good, one was truer to myself… Ultimately, I reflected on Geothe’s invocation to ‘make a commitment and the forces of the universe will conspire to make it happen’ and chose the...

As a result Oracle discovered both the Independent Institute and the National Taxpayer’s Union were misrepresenting themselves as independent advocacy groups when in fact they were funded by Microsoft for the express purpose to influence...

They say a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. I took mine and fell flat on my face. As a young woman, I dreamed of changing the world. In my twenties,...

We are more sensitive to losses than to gains; the pleasure of winning is less than the pain of losing.

We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

deeply disturbed by some statements that were made by largely Democratic advocacy groups. …

Our voices will be heard in the future when we take up an advocacy issue,

If we are not being maligned, scandalizing those who still sleep in the church, then we are missing the incarnational call to love the world’s most vulnerable, the world’s exiled, the world’s most wounded. Our...

It was somewhat surreal to think that HIMSS first launched its advocacy initiative just a little over five years ago and here we are today meeting in the White House with the President’s key HIT...

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.

It is not loving to impose our own grid onto others. We need to understand their situation and their needs accurately, and this comes from listening to them, not coming in with our own assumptions.

Mental illness is not something you misunderstand in this era. Get educated because bias is no different than racism.

The enormity of problems like hunger and social injustice can certainly motivate us to act. We can be convinced logically of the need for intervention and change. But it is the story of one individual...

I spend half my time comforting the afflicated, and the other half afflicting the comfortable.

Obviously these are some exceptional young people, but what they have in common is that they were ordinary people who cared. They wanted to act, to do something, to make life better for other people—and...

Not in My Backyard (NIMBY) does not work. Opiate addicts live in our communities and in our families & they work in our businesses.