Quotes About Advocacy

In our fight to get the SCS, we will use all forms, including protest, dialogue, and discussion, to get our goal.

You go to a protest, and you've got all these different groups saying things you don't necessarily agree with. If I went to a protest, my placard would have to be very long, explaining the ins and outs of my position.

A protest is supposed to be public. How can you do it if you don't do it in front of an audience?

Protest is, at its core, designed to move policy.

I decided to protest in 2016 because I was feeling helpless and somebody needed to do something.

I feel like if a dude wants to get his point across and wants to protest, I feel like he has the right to do that.

My mum taught me the power of protest.

We fully support the right of citizens to peacefully protest and are committed to protecting that right.

When my people are dying, that's when you gonna catch me protesting. I'm not gonna protest because somebody got offered not the amount of money they wanted to get offered. If you don't like what they're offering you, just no longer do business with them.

I have been arrested several times protesting.

I've played hundreds of protests. I've marched on dozens of picket lines. I've strummed my guitar at innumerable demonstrations.

I was involved in some peaceful protests.

The protocol things, the officialdom, are part of my work. But it doesn't take more than 20 percent of my time. The majority of my time I spend on issues that I care about.

Everything I have done or attempted to do for Scotland has always been for her benefit, never my own and I defy anyone to prove otherwise.

We must provide all kinds of freedom, personal and economic, to all Iraqis. I will fight for that.

That's what mayors do. They lobby Congress to provide resources for their city.

It is right for women to stand by a woman's cause.

Good is towing the line, being behaved, being quiet, being passive, fitting in, being liked, and great is being messy, having a belly, speaking your mind, standing up for what you believe in, fighting for another paradigm, not letting people talk you out of what you know to be true.

An activist is someone who cannot help but fight for something. That person is not usually motivated by a need for power or money or fame, but in fact is driven slightly mad by some injustice, some cruelty, some unfairness, so much so that he or she is compelled by some internal moral engine to act to make it better.

stop fixing your bodies and start fixing the world!

To love women, to love our vaginas, to know them and touch them and be familiar with who we are and what we need. To satisfy ourselves, to teach our lovers to satisfy us, to be present in our vaginas, to speak of them out loud, to speak of their hunger and pain and loneliness and humor, to make them visible so they cannot be ravaged in the dark without great consequence, so that our center, our point, our motor, our dream, is no longer detached, mutilated, numb, broken, invisible, or ashamed.

And then, she continued, there are all the subtle reformers who tell you the wild stories they've heard about you and how they've been sticking up for you.

And I who am saying all this – why am I writing this book? Because I realize it's imperfect. Dreamed, it would be perfection; written, it becomes imperfect; that's why I'm writing it. And above all else, because I advocate uselessness, absurdity, – I write this book to lie to myself, to be unfaithful to my own theory.

Over and over again, I looked family members who had lost loved ones to police violence, I looked them right in the eye and told them, 'Don't worry. We will get justice for your family.'