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Quotes About Advocacy

Find something you really love doing and mix it with something you really care about. That's why I've had such longevity as an artist. I really, really care about ending violence against women, and I really, really love playing music. It's super enjoyable!
~ Kathleen Hanna
I don't see women and think of them as competition or with judgment. Women really move me. I feel connected to all kinds of women. I am angry because I think we've been mistreated throughout history in different countries, including America. I admire women.
~ Salma Hayek
I don't know if I'm a feminist, but I just know that I am all for outspoken, powerful women.
~ Mac Miller
Finally, let us understand that when we stand together, we will always win. When men and women stand together for justice, we win. When black, white and Hispanic people stand together for justice, we win.
~ Bernie Sanders
I cannot be silent when facing these evils against women and children.
~ Chen Guangcheng
I'm not only passionate about dressing women and helping them feel and look their best, but also about helping to give a stronger voice to women and children in need around the world.
~ Rachel Roy
I have a reputation for being cold and aloof, but I'm so not that woman. I'm passionate. I love my girls, being with my girlfriends, getting involved with issues that affect other women and children who are suffering.
~ Annie Lennox
I have received so many messages of support from across the country - women and men speaking out because they agree that contraception needs to be treated as a basic health care service.
~ Sandra Fluke
For millions of women and men around the world, the playwright Eve Ensler is a beloved figure. She represents the epitome of the politically engaged artist, someone who uses her creative brilliance to illuminate injustice and give voice to the voiceless.
~ Jackson Katz
There are so many more women and men who deserve opportunities. People of color. Period.
~ Octavia Spencer
How fortunate I was to be alive and a lawyer when, for the first time in United States history, it became possible to urge, successfully, before legislatures and courts, the equal-citizenship stature of women and men as a fundamental constitutional principle.
~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg
My next project is 'Venus Vs,' which is a documentary that follows tennis star Venus Williams and her effort to get equal-award pay for women at Wimbledon. Most people don't realize that Venus fought for years to make sure women and men winners of that tennis championship received the same amount in award money.
~ Ava DuVernay
I've been fortunate that the people I hang out with all respect women and men, so there's hasn't been a scenario where I've had to step in and say, 'Hey, this isn't cool.'
~ Justin Prentice
I mean that I consider myself a feminist. I think anybody who thinks women and men should be treated equally is a feminist, whether or not they know it.
~ MJ Hegar
Studies show that women are more likely than men to die in natural disasters. Women's voices must be heard.
~ Frances Beinecke
We women of America tell you that America is not a democracy. Twenty million women are denied the right to vote.
~ Alice Paul
We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.
~ Malala Yousafzai
The farm women are extremely well organized and are bound to be heard from.
~ Edith Rogers
I'm hoping to see some minorities in executive offices in positions of power, people who see the merit of projects with minority themes. That may or may not happen.
~ Bill Duke
It's important for me to talk about my life as a gay man, not gay themes per se, in my work.
~ Tituss Burgess
Students and teachers should be sensitive towards the themes of empowerment of the marginalised.
~ Ram Nath Kovind
We have an obligation to help people that cannot help themselves. The mentally retarded, the physically retarded, et cetera.
~ Lou Holtz
I am for feminism. I stand up for women standing up for themselves in the same way I stand up for being black.
~ Skepta
If this country can demand justice for someone like George Floyd, then we can certainly demand justice for Ashli Babbitt.
~ Marjorie Taylor Greene