Quotes About Advocacy

Sometimes, you've just got to take a stand. For yourself and for others. -- Bubba

Life is a big battle for the complete feminist.

Are we defending life when we just pick and choose lives acceptable to lose and which ones to defend?

All my life I've worked to try to correct and perfect our system of government to make it more fair.

I think that the notion of justice and the issues and values that I understood growing up and [have] continued to embrace throughout my life and into my career have been the same.

I couldn't be more proud to be standing with Donald Trump, who is standing for the right to life.

No sane human being devotes 100% of his or her life to political activism.

I'm grateful that, after an early life of being silenced, sometimes violently, I grew up to have a voice, circumstances that will always bind me to the rights of the voiceless.

At one point in my life, I was very involved with social causes. I'm still involved, but now I have a family and it's important to me.

It takes one second to ruin a woman's life.

What I believe is that we should defend life.

We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage and life.

I will happily support anything that protects life.

I think that the activism I've become involved with informs and enhances my life in a lot of ways, and definitely career-wise. This record wouldn't exist [without that activism], for one.

Throughout my life I have cared as deeply about the songs of all peoples as I have about the rights of all peoples.

If you feel strongly about something and you want to voice your opinion, I feel it's your right, so, that's how I look at it because that's how life is.

I care about life and I have a record of fighting for people above all else.

Every day you meet a delegation going to some convention to try and change the way of somebody else's life.

It would be so irresponsible not to speak up. I don't know what I would do in my home and in my life if I didn't rant a little bit and as thoughtfully as I can with some humor.

Of course the system can be changed. Why would I bother spending 14 years of my life blogging if I didn't believe that?

The question had been complicated by the advocacy of some good men, who saw in the separation of the white and black races in the schools of the Nation a dangerous tendency toward the creation of class distinctions in our American life. It was the expression of a theory of equality right in itself, but which it would have been fatal at that moment to enforce.

There is so much work to be done to treat gays and lesbians and gay and lesbian couples with the respect that they're entitled to. They deserve, in my judgment, partnership benefits. They deserve to be treated fairly when it comes to adoption and immigration.

I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.

My mission, I guess, has always been the kind of world where lesbian and gay people can celebrate who we are with equal freedom, dignity, and respect.