Quotes About Advocacy

My very presence as an Asian American woman talking about race and sexuality is a political statement.

True advocacy is born from culture, not technology or marketing.

I am here on behalf of all the patients that I have ever met, all the ones I haven't met. This is about letting patients play a more active role ... in fixing health care.

If I could write a story that would do for the Indian one-hundredth part what 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' did for the Negro, I would be thankful the rest of my life.

If I can do one hundredth part for the Indian that Mrs. Stowe did for the Negro, I will be thankful.

I am above eighty years old; it is about time for me to be going. I have been forty years a slave and forty years free and would be here forty years more to have equal rights for all.

Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.

All I can say is if you check my record going back a long time, I have stood with those who are hurting. I have stood with those who have no money.

Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence.

Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.

Children should be able to live a life free from bullying and harassment and it is time that we all took a stand against this.

Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.

The time has arrived in America for the Democratic Party to get out of the shadows of states rights and walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights

There will come a time when the gun owners of America, the law-abiding gun owners of America, will be the Rosa Parks and we will sit down on the front seat of the bus, case closed.

It's time for women to stop being politely angry.

It's time for democrats to grow a backbone and stand up for what we believe.

It's time for somebody to lead all of America's niggers . . all the people who feel left out of the political process.

Transgender discrimination is the civil rights issue of our time

We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law.

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

Every time we witness an act that we feel to be unjust and do not act, we become a party to injustice.

When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be any where but at home, amongst his new thoughts, doctrines, and modes of reasoning.

Bah! Suffragettes. I've no time for suffragettes. They made the biggest mistake in history. They went for equality. They should have gone for power!

Old age is an excellent time for outrage.