Quotes About Advocacy

Inherently, having privilege isn't bad, but it's how you use it, and you have to use it in service of other people.

I believe everyone should have healthcare. In all my correspondence - I've been saying for years - it's a right, not a privilege.

I'm not interested in defending the position of those who already have money, power and privilege.

We are driven by the belief that every person in this world matters and access to better health is a right, not a privilege.

We believe that health care is a right, not a privilege.

I believe in civil rights, but not in special privilege laws to allow flaunting homosexuals to become role models for children.

Over the years, I have been privileged to meet many women, men and children who have escaped domestic abuse and who are determined to tell their stories to save others.

For me, true and authentic democracy occurs when the privileged groups assist the unprivileged groups to become more privileged.

I've led a very privileged life. You know, I've gotten to choose the work I do, and I hope every job I've had has been a little bit about trying to push the ball forward, particularly for folks who may not have the same opportunities that I've had.

We are privileged. There are poor people out there. We must to do something to make them privileged.

I am privileged to have the kind of platform I do and the kind of support I do. A lot of women in this country don't have that.

My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.

It so happens that I'm pro choice.

My clients were always poor folks, working folks, people who were in trouble and couldn't afford to pay a whole lot. I found it very difficult to say no to somebody who needed help, so most of my work turned out to be pro bono. It didn't start out that way, but it turned out that way because I never got paid.

I'm proud to have earned a 100 percent score from Planned Parenthood and to have been previously endorsed by both Planned Parenthood and NARAL Pro Choice.

Maggie is my sister-in-law, married to my brother David. She is a defense attorney who devotes 25 percent of her practice to pro bono wrongful-incarceration cases.

My pro-choice activism keeps me busy.

I'm very much a humanist. I'm very much pro-choice. I'm very much politically correct.

As a member of the House Pro-Choice Caucus and a strong defender of a woman's right to choose, my bottom line here is this: women have a constitutional right to access abortion.

I am a big pro-choice guy.

I'm one-hundred percent pro-choice. I align with everything Emily's List aligns with.

Look, I am as pro-choice as anybody.

If you're so pro-life, do me a favour: don't lock arms and block medical clinics. If you're so pro-life, lock arms and block cemeteries.

It's not easy being a pro-life Democrat.