Quotes About Advocacy

Twenty-six years ago, I became the first Democratic woman elected to the Senate in her own right. I was the first, but I made sure I wasn't the only.

I'm not a shill for the Democratic Party.

Call me, and I'd do anything for the Democratic Party.

I was a chairwoman of my state Democratic party.

The Democratic Party isn't any good unless they know it's about people!

I've said that we need to elect Democrats from the school board to the Senate.

The biggest strength we have as Democrats is encouraging people to speak up about what is in their best interest.

The Democrats need to be confident about making their argument... and making sure that everybody knows we care about them.

I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write.

A right delayed is a right denied.

Am I attracted to people who want to give other people a voice? Yes I am, and that may be a 'common denominator with the characters that I play.

I will not deny health care to any single American.

As far as making people feel less depressed, that, in and of itself, is a political act.

I don't know why there aren't more Depression buffs.

I know that when we deprive communities of their voice, it can be dangerous.

Now that I am a deputy, I will cease to be an agitator.

I would never do anything that's derogatory to women.

People get all up in arms when I describe myself as a crip because what they hear is the word 'cripple,' and they hear a word you're not allowed to say anymore.

From the day I got out, it was an evolutionary process. I was sick for, like, two years - that's the best way I can describe what was happening with me. But as time went by and I finished law school, it became clear to me that I needed a platform.

My heart is committed to giving everyone the same rights that I deserve for myself.

I think I have done enough for sports and made enough of a name for myself to deserve some sort of backing - most of the other girls have it.

I only scream if screaming is deserved.

Every one of us deserves a voice that our president will hear.

And if these be unprincipled agents who scruple at nothing, he will be a bold man who will deny that there are always to be found men at the bar who lend their services most cordially to back and support these agents in their most desperate cases.