Quotes About Advocacy

The right to bear arms? What about the right to live?

I have been vociferous against government on things like beef. I used to eat beef, but I've stopped. That doesn't mean others shouldn't eat beef.

I am not advocating beef eating. But I am advocating freedom to have an opinion and a voice.

Leftism should be about the people. That's how it began.

As a person in the LGBT community, I feel like I've begun to do my job.

Women have begun to see that if I go through that doorway, I take everybody through it.

I want to speak on behalf of the American people because the American people have been the one that have endured violence.

You have to tell the people that you want to serve what it is you believe and what you are going to do on their behalf.

What we're trying to do every day is make policy and work on behalf of the American people.

I think the only way to behave is as if nothing is private. And then fight to make what you care about legal and acceptable.

If you're doing the same work, you should get the same amount of money, and you should get the same respect. It's about valuation. It's about not being afraid to ask for those things.

I don't endorse products, only actions and beliefs.

I think that we need to look hard at our beliefs and be responsible about how we speak out.

I want to encourage kids to speak up, to tell their stories. That is the only way people will know what we have to go through. Believe in yourself. Someone once told me being different isn't bad - different is just different!

I'm a strong believer in the NRA.

I'm a real believer in counter-speech when it comes to crazy stuff we don't like.

I get a little belligerent when not enough protesters show up at my appearances.

In reality, the [American legal] system promotes chicanery, outright deceit, and other egregious conduct by trial lawyers.

T]his is a bad thing that's going on," she told Moore, "and we all need to do something to try to fix it." On

As Martin Luther King, Jr., put it in a phrase drawn from the abolitionist Theodore Parker, "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." Bends, not swerves—but what we can miss in this cold-eyed understanding of history is that the arc won't even bend without devoted Americans pressing for the swerve.

Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frederick Douglass: Their voices, articulating the feelings of innumerable others, ultimately prevailed in the causes of emancipation and of suffrage.

A young person should be speaking out for what is fair, what is just, what is right. Speak out for those who have been left out and left behind. That is how the movement goes on.

get out of the shadow of states' rights and walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights

think that 'twixt the negroes of the South and the women at the North, all talking about rights, the white men will be in a fix pretty soon. —Words popularly attributed to SOJOURNER TRUTH, the Woman's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio, 1851