PAN - The People's Advocacy Network
PAN is an independent advocacy organisation based near Wellington, in New Zealand. PAN has strong links to UK advocacy initiatives.
PAN works predominantly with people with learning disabilities, mental health issues and impairment due to injury, youth, refugee and migrant groups and the elderly.
If you would like to give a donation to our work, all donations are tax-deductable.
If you want to become a member of the network, download the Membership Form. When we receive your membership form, we will send you a password and a User ID so that you can access the Members' Area.
SITEMAP
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Advocacy Quotes
“Cowardice asks the question: is it safe? Expediency asks the question: is it politic? Vanity asks the question: is it popular? But conscience asks the question: is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular- but one must take it simply because it is right.” - Martin Luther King Jr.
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.” - Margaret Mead. American Anthropologist
"If you’re outraged at conditions, then you can’t possibly be free or happy until you devote all your time to changing them and do nothing but that. But you can’t change anything if you want to hold onto a good job, a good way of life and avoid sacrifice." - Cesar Chavez
First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me.
- Pastor Martin Niemöller
