Quotes About Advocacy

Sitting with Ricki [Abrams], talking with Ricki, I made a vow to her: that I would use everything I knew, including from prostitution, to make the women`s movement stronger and better; that I`d give my life to the movement and for the movement. I promised to honour-bound to the well-being of women, to do anything necessary for that well-being. I promised to live and to die if need be for women. I made that vow some thirty years ago, and I have not betrayed it yet.

And I want one day of respite, one day off, one day in which no new bodies are piled up, one day in which no new agony is added to the old, and I am asking you to give it to me. And how could I ask you for less--it is so little. And how could you offer me less: it is so little. Even in wars, there are days of truce. Go and organize a truce. Stop your side for one day. I want a twenty-four-hour truce during which there is no rape.

On what motivated her: I see it like this. All women are on a leash, because we are all oppressed. But those who get to adulthood without being raped or beaten have a longer leash than those who were. It should be that the ones with the longest leashes do more to help others. But it doesn't work that way, so we are the ones that fight the fight.

I want writers to write books because they are committed to the content of those books. I want writers to write books as actions. I want writers to write books that can make a difference in how, and even why, people live. I want writers to write books that are worth being jailed for, worth fighting for, and should it come to that in this country, worth dying for.

Feminists try hard to fight for women at the same time maintaining special loyalties to subgroups of men. How could we not?

we work daily within our teams to advocate our ideas, modify existing practices, and suggest new ones.

Mental illness is real illness

I believe that the emergency room policy in which saying "I have had severe psychotic depression exacerbated by extreme pain" is treated much the same as saying "I have to have a woolly teddy bear with me before you can use sutures" is unacceptable.

In the United States, 150,000 people with schizophrenia are homeless; one in five people with schizophrenia is homeless in any given year.

I think pot should be legal. I don't smoke it, but I like the smell of it.

Early suffragists saw the vote as key to all women's personal as well as political autonomy. But a hundred years of women's suffrage has shown that gaining the right to vote or run for office will not be enough as long as we're threatened with emotional, physical, economic or sexual abuse af work, at school or in our own homes.

Do you recognize suffering? -I hope I do. -Injustice? -Again, I hope I would. -Then you are a political man.

One man who didn't like mob action even on behalf of civil rights was Thurgood Marshall. A skilled lawyer, he was redeeming civil rights for blacks the American way—by bringing lawsuits, making arguments, and winning in court. Marshall was the anti-Rousseau, using words, not pictures, to get justice. Martin

advocates unfettered scientific research and debate—but then, with no evidence, simply declares discussions about evolution and global warming closed; •

And before you go labeling me an aggressive feminist, let me set you straight on that. I love being a woman. I wouldn't want to be anything else. But I want to be treated fairly and equally....

From the right to know and the duty to inquire flows the obligation to act.

When I realized that by "no one" this man was referring to approximately 750,000 children, I knew that I had found my passion and my cause.

I made the decision to do everything in my power to prevent the execution of a plan that was going to compromise Bulgaria in the eyes of the world and brand it with a mark of shame that it did not deserve.

A complaint can be how you live with yourself because a complaint is an attempt to address what is wrong, not to cope with something, not to let it happen, not to let it keep happening. You refuse to adjust to what is unjust. A complaint can be a way of not doing nothing. I think the double negative is often the terrain of complaint

A complaint can come out of a sense that unless you complain, the same thing will keep happening. In other words, a complaint can be what you have to make to stop the same thing from happening.

If a body can express a complaint, a body can be a complaint testimony.

So much of feminist and antiracist work is the work of trying to convince others that sexism and racism have not ended

I think it's your civic obligation to be utterly fucking furious about politics.

I am not here to entertain straight people.