Quotes About Advocacy

I'm hoping my presence alone in Russia will be a show of strength for the Russian LGBT community.

Don't give up the fight, Stand up for your rights.

Pacifists should stress more and more that it is the rule of law for which they are fighting.

I have chosen the positive approach - instead of stressing the bad things which I am against, I stress the good things which I am for.

With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

Success will be when every child in the world has access to a service like Childline and knows that someone who cares is just a phone call away

My success has been based on the issues. It's easy to fight for mental health or needle exchange or small businesses or whatever, because the machine can't interfere.

I never seek to protect a society which does not protect me, and which I will even say, generally occupies itself about me only to injure me;

he thought of Jesus as a great teacher, a rebel who refused to see the poor and disenfranchised mistreated.

Sisters were sisters, after all, and if they didn't stick up for each other, who would?

Since then I've always thought that under rape in the dictionary it should tell the truth. It is not just forcible intercourse; rape means to inhabit and destroy everything.

Just cause I love her don't take away none of her rights.

If he ever listened to poor colored women the world would be a different place, I can tell you.

The real revolution is always concerned with the least glamorous stuff. With raising a reading level from second grade to third. With simplifying history and writing it down (or reciting it) for the old folks. With helping illiterates fill out a food-stamps form - for they must eat, revolution or not.

May our call be from this day onward, to all the creatures and beings of the planet who have no voice: I have come to you, for you, to be a witness to your life and to extend whatever understanding and happiness I can.

Just cause I love her don't take away none of her rights.

Instead all the women [at the National Black Feminist Organization] understood that we gathered together to assure understanding among black women, and that understanding among women is not a threat to anyone who intends to treat women fairly.

We were the kind of friends, instead, who understood that we were forever on the same side: the side of the poor, the economically, spiritually and politically oppressed, "the wretched of the earth.

T]he DSM alone does not establish standards. Physicians, other mental health workers, drug companies, advocacy groups, school systems, the courts, the Internet, and cable TV all get to vote on how the written word will actually be used and misused.

LAWFUL, adj. Compatible with the will of a judge having jurisdiction. LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.

If women lose the right to say where and how they birth their children, then they will have lost something that's as dear to life as breathing.

If women lose the right to say where and how they birth their children, then they will have lost something that's as dear to life as breathing.

And he wasn't without sympathy for their cause, up to a point. Freedom and justice and so on, who doesn't like that stuff, in principle?

Why is it so important for us to listen to girls? Because a girl's voice may be the most valuable and most threatened resource she has.