Quotes About Advocacy

I can't change what happened to you in the past, but together we may be able to use your experience to help protect other people.

The issues that preoccupy bicycle advocates in the West—bike commuting as a planning priority and "lifestyle choice"—have little connection to the reality of the hundreds of millions for whom cycling is simply a necessity, the only viable and affordable means of travel.

Pray for the dead, but fight like hell for the living. —Mother Jones

Well, you know my number one cause has always been that women's reproductive health needs to be protected.

I travel all over the country making speeches for people I believe in.

Do you know why this world is as bad as it is?... It is because people think only about their own business, and won't trouble themselves to stand up for the oppressed, nor bring the wrong-doers to light... My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.

Now I say, that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it; you did right my boy.

What right had they to make me suffer like that?

I once watched in awe as a New York City tenant lawyer exclaimed, "Good!" when she was shown statistics about declining white male incomes.

J'accuse," published in 1898, Emile Zola

Language is one of the principal ways that we make the invisible visible and the silent heard. Think

My deeds must speak for me, for words are too poor.

Men need to understand, and women too, what feminism is really about.

Women's issues have always been a part of my life.

Feminism is a word that I identify with. The term has become synonymous with vitriolic man-hating but it needs to come back to a place where both men and women can embrace it. It is particularly important for women in developing countries.

I'm appalled the word feminism has been denigrated to a place of almost ridicule and I very passionately believe the word needs to be revalued and reintroduced with power and understanding that this is a global picture.

My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.

Planned Parenthood is a very important part of my professional life.

Professionally I would say taking up my constituents' problems is something I continue to enjoy after 22 years as an MP.

I'd like to professionally... continue my education and hopefully become an attorney. I think that's the best way to stop the miscarriage of justice that happened to me from happening to somebody else. I don't think it should ever happen to anyone ever again - not one person.

I attended the Women's March on Washington with a group of artists, curators, and art-world professionals.

What I did as a professor is not that different than what I do in hearings.

I want to be an activist professor.

When I decided to retire I thought I should align myself with a charity that can use my high profile.