Quotes About Advocacy

I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.

Florence Nightingale was never called "the Lady with the Lamp," but "the Lady with the Hammer," an image deftly readjusted by the war reporter of the Times since it was far too coarse for the folks back home. Far from gliding about the hospital with her lamp aloft, Nightingale earned her nickname through a ferocious attack on a locked storeroom when a military commander refused to give her the medical supplies she needed.

Women are the greatest wronged and still-suffering majority in the history of the world, and we can never say that loudly or long enough.

This is the next and the more profound stage of the battle for civil rights. We seek not just freedom but opportunity. We seek not just legal equity but human ability, not just equality as a right and a theory but equality as a fact and equality as a result.

There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women. (Keynote speech at Celebrating Inspiration luncheon with the WNBA's All-Decade Team, 2006)

I also think it is important for women to help one another. I have a saying: There is a special place in hell for women who don't.

It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent

The real question is: who has the responsibility to uphold human rights? The answer to that is: everyone.

You don't manage a social wrong. You should be ending it.

We declare our right on this earth...to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary.

You don't stick a knife in a man's back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you're making progress ... No matter how much respect, no matter how much recognition, whites show towards me, as far as I am concerned, as long as it is not shown to everyone of our people in this country, it doesn't exist for me.

If you are in a position where you can reach people, then use your platform to stand up for a cause. HINT: social media is a platform.

What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.

Intercession is about putting ourselves in other's shoes or having sympathy with others. But intercessions are about having the mind of God and see things through His perspective

Only secretly rebellious teachers have ever done right by our least advantaged kids.

The educator has the duty of not being neutral.

They believe in teachers unions. We believe in teachers.

A good special education teacher is hard to find and even harder to hang on to.

When teachers or people in authority put me down or in one way or another tried to make me feel less than equal to what they thought I should be - my mother was on my side. It was amazing.

Karen Lundegaard] was quite frail, debilitated by metastatic breast cancer, which she had long known she had but for which she had been unable to get adequate treatment because she lacked medical insurance. (If you mention anything about me, she said, tell people that.)

Treating feminism like it's a personal accessory that just isn't appropriate anymore obscures the places where feminism hasn't made strides for people who still need it.

A big tent is great and all, but there has to be a line in the sand, and I'm pretty sure the desire to legislate other women's bodies is it.

Surely the freedom of women must mean more to us than the freedom of pimps.

I am one of those serious women.