Quotes About Advocacy

I later spent... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release.

And that's the mission of The Innocence Project in New York, is to exonerate people who have been wrongfully convicted, and also work from a policy angle with Congress and state legislatures to prevent future wrongful convictions.

We cannot keep turning our backs on gay and lesbian Americans. I have fought too hard and too long against discrimination based on race and color not to stand up against discrimination based on sexual orientation.

You hear gun control advocates say all the time "guns kill people." And you hear a lot of Second Amendment advocates say "no, people kill people." But what you have to understand, and what you will understand after reading this book, is: gun control kills people.

Nothing in life is more liberating than to fight for a cause larger than yourself, something that encompasses you but is not defined by your existence alone.

In response to a question about his team's execution - "I'm all in favour of it.

There were two grad students, Burcu and Ula?, who sometimes came to the club meetings to circulate petitions about the Armenian genocide. They were really stressful people—not just about the petitions, but about everything. You could see exactly what their parents were like.

The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify.

ignores these wrongs, then may women as a sex continue to suffer them; there is no help for any of us — let us be dumb and die. I have spoken therefore, and in speaking have used plain words — words which look like blots, and which you yourself would put away — words which, if blurred or softened, would imperil perhaps the force and righteousness of the moral influence.

In any case, Prometheus is in the process of reinvention. I'd like to plead our case.

While thou art looking out for the halt and the stupid, Lord, let me put in a word for a crippled bird as well.

Our "pathway" is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning…. We demand in the Reconstruction suffrage for all the citizens of the Republic. I would not talk of Negroes or women, but of citizens.

The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.

We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours?

I poured out the torrent of my long-standing discontent and I challenged them to do and dare anything.

Did I not feel that the time has come for the questions of women's wrongs to be laid before the public? Did I not believe that women herself must do this work, for women alone understand the height, the depth, the breadth of her degradation. - Seneca Falls Convention, 1848

We cannot accept any code or creed that uniformly defrauds woman of all her natural rights.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I'm completely comfortable with gay marriage.

It is unthinkable and grotesque that we make the same mistake over and over again. There should be an uproar of children shouting, "What about me?" But they often can't speak and so their plight goes unnoticed...

I am passionate about talking to women about their breast health.

Sozialistin oder Feministin?' 'Ich könnte doch beides sein. Der Wunsch, dass es für Frauen gerechter zugeht, gehört doch zum Wunsch dazu, dass es für alle gerechter zugeht. Oder nicht?

She spoke mostly of her work with the ACLU, and I thought: She is not talking about anything real. And I think by that I mean that she was not talking about how she felt

Y que resistamos a toda costa. —Me lo temía. No me gusta cómo suena eso. —A mí tampoco —apostilla Ortuño. —Ni a mí. Cuando se dice a toda costa siempre es a costa de los mismos.