Quotes About Advocacy

How come life is so important in the nine months before birth, but then we sort of forget about the importance, we're not worried about whether that baby lives in poverty once he or she is born.

I am merely asking for a first chance to live my life outside the [U.S. Disciplinary Barracks] as the person I was born to be.

Living a life with meaning means spreading the word. Even if you can't move, you can have a powerful effect with what you say.

The only difference between "propaganda" and "education," really, is in the point of view. The advocacy of what we believe in is education. The advocacy of what we don't believe in is propaganda.

Until the June 1967 war I was completely caught up in the life of a young professor of English. Beginning in 1968, I started to think, write, and travel as someone who felt himself to be directly involved in the renaissance of Palestinian life and politics.

Defending a perpetrator or offender is itself a perpetrating and offensive attempt.

Virtually, self-promotion is not an objectionable attempt when one's opponents occupy and block all corners of a neutral approach since it is the only way left to voice for justice and fairness.

Do not overschedule yourself. Allow time to think, to daydream. 6. Keep your expectations realistic. 7. Do not hide your abilities. 8. Be your own advocate. Support your right to be yourself. 9. Accept it when you have narrow interests. Or broad ones.

I forged the thunderbolts and she fired them," is how [Elizabeth Cady] Stanton described their [hers and Susan B. Anthony's] work together.

She was never going to stand by and say nothing again.

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

I know that we will be the sufferers if we let great wrongs occur without exerting ourselves to correct them.

To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start.

It is important that women think beyond the mere moment through which we are passing and acquaint themselves with all phases of life and conditions in our own country. I think we shall have fulfilled our mission well if when our time comes to give up active wok in the world we can say we never saw a wrong without trying to right it; we never intentionally left unhappiness where a little effort would have turned it into happiness, and we were more critical of ourselves than we were of others.

I became a much more ardent citizen and feminist than anyone about me in the intermediate years would have dreamed possible. I had learned that if you wanted to institute any kind of reform, you could get far more attention if you had a vote than if you lacked one.

I have always believed that I should have had no difficulty in causing my rights to be respected.

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides.

Uncle Sam is never going to come walking out of the bush or over the Plains and hand you your language on a silver platter, saying, "Sorry about the last five hundred years." The world is not a fair place. Fairness is not given, it is made. So we have to engineer it ourselves.

There is no way to convince everyone to support the revitalization of our languages, so laying out reasons for our efforts does not mean we wait for them all to join the movement. We act and advocate at the same time. The acting is required to combat inertia. We don't have time to waste.

A good writer is better than the best street fighter demanding justice.