Quotes About Advocacy

I want to do something for Kirkcaldy and Fife. I am a full-time MP, not a businessman.

People continue to put our league down. It's because we're women; that's the fight. And it's a majority of black women; that's the other fight. But we represent America to the fullest. And it's weird to me that people wouldn't want to support that. I don't get it.

Always remember Rahm Emanuel and those of his ilk who are opposed to our fundamental civil right to keep and bear arms when you donate to NRA-ILA or the NRA Civil Rights Legal Defense Fund.

I don't go to the federal government and say, 'Fund my program.'

Education should be a fundamental human right.

People should have affordable places to live. That's a fundamental right.

I would simply not compromise on the fundamental rights of people.

I'm also involved in the rights of the disabled and do some fundraising for that and I thought it would have been a big boost for the campaign but it couldn't be worked out.

The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended.

It was a way of hers always to want to spring into any fray in which someone was made uncomfortable or unhappy.

don't make the mistake of selling yourself short. There'll be people enough out there who will do that for you at some point. If you're not willing to champion yourself, you're ten paces back from the very start!

We must seize every opportunity we can to speak the truth and proclaim peace. Especially now. There's so little time for many.

Being a Milliner's about standing up for what's right, for those who can't stand up for themselves.

We need to protect our wilderness areas and national parks. Everywhere you travel, you see blight, denuded mountains, logging. If people know what's going on, they'll become activists to safeguard those places.

I work with 15 organisations that deal with issues ranging from environment protection and wildlife conservation to human rights, and women's and children's rights, etc.

I'm the spokesperson for the North Shore Animal League America. So, I'd go on morning shows on their behalf. I also work closely with the Wildlife Rescue Center in the Hamptons.

William Lloyd Garrison was up there with Frederick Douglass being thrown off trains and going through what happened in the 1960s in 1840 in Boston.

I am saddened to hear of the passing of William 'Bill' J. Hughes, former U.S. Representative and Ambassador. Mr. Hughes has fought for South Jersey for decades and it is an honor to have known him and followed in his footsteps. South Jersey and the world are better for having had him.

The seminal right of the modern civil rights movement was the right to vote. My father fought so diligently for it. Certainly Congressman John Lewis and many others, Hosea Williams, fought for it as well.

I'm willing to throw my body in front of the bus to stop bad ideas.

If you believe in a cause, you must be willing to put yourself on the line for that cause.

There are those who maintain that in this world women have no right to interfere in the affairs of state, in politics, in plots and counter-plots. Others that are who, more chivalrous, are willing to admit that women have as much right to act, think, and speak as men.

I am one who believes in the power of the people. I am inspired when I see people hit the streets, who challenge their elected officials, and are willing to stand up and fight. I encourage it.

There is virtually nothing I wouldn't be willing to do, to try and make sure that children have a fair shake in life.