Quotes About Advocacy

I support the protection of life from conception to natural death. But a natural death for a murderer is a death on the gallows.

Every child has a right to education as much as to life, and every woman the right to live.

I've been a philanthropist for all my life, and... I've had many involvements in humanitarian and environmental issues.

The right to life does not depend, and must not be declared to be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or sovereign.

The best thing I ever did with my life was stand up and say I've got Alzheimer's.

I am not brutal or cruel to animals. My mission has always been to save dogs - especially troubled and abandoned dogs. I've dedicated my life to this.

I extend my appreciation to the associations, movements and all those who defend human life.

What motivated me to dedicate myself to public service for nearly two-thirds of my life was the chance to produce results for those people who entrusted me to be their voice and their champion.

Nothing in life is more liberating than to fight for a cause larger than yourself, something that encompasses you but is not defined by your existence alone.

I don't want to be thought of as the 'girl who was shot by the Taliban' but the 'girl who fought for education. This is the cause to which I want to devote my life.

being critical is more than just doing critique, as social change that leads to equity also requires informing policy and practice through advocacy and activism

I am writing this because they cannot.

The reverse should be preceded by a short nurturing statement, because you don't want to sound like a district attorney during cross-examination.

If you show goodwill and kindness toward those who cannot stand up for themselves, you set a tone of compassion and goodwill that permeates all.

Project leaders must be champions of technical excellence; they must support and advocate technical excellence while maintaining a watchful eye on other project objectives.

I've used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly, I've still been able to carry out my commitments to peace and human rights and environmental quality and freedom and democracy and so forth.

I like a writer who cares and takes sides. Pretending to be unbiased is only another kind of bias, and pretending to be dispassionate is often a way of supporting the status quo.

Sometimes you've got to shout the truth and wake people up.

Women must show their public face. We must help to work out our own community problems. We must insist on having equal voices and equal responsibilities. . . In large part, success depends on changing minds at home, in the streets, and at the workplace - not just in legislatures and in the courts. Each and every one of us has and important role to play in completing that task.

I love sports. I love animals. I love kids. I want to save the world. So how do I combine all those things? I don't know.

You deserve a man who'll fight for you, baby girl. You remember that, all right?

I'd decided to start campaigning for a woman's right to marry her vibrator.

I have to know the hill on which I'm willing to die," she told the group. "The equality of the sexes is that hill for me.

There isn't ever going to be an end," she said. "The point is that people have to continue always speaking up and not being afraid.