Quotes About Advocacy

There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.

Any community seriously concerned with its own freedom has to be concerned about other peoples' freedom as well.

After ten days, i was discharged from the hospital over the objections of my doctor, brought to the middlesex county jail for men, and kept in solitary confinement from February 1974 until May 1974.

I also had monilia, a vaginal discharge, which worsened because the Montefiore Hospital doctors assigned to Rikers could not agree about how it should be treated. They refused to treat the condition at all until my culture was returned from Elmhurst Hospital. By the time they managed to get the culture back, the whole inside of my thigh was chapped raw from the discharge, and i could barely walk.

Charlie was one of the women who worked the hardest to get better medical conditions. It's kind of ironic when i think about it now. A little more than a year later, i heard over the prison grapevine that Charlene had died from undiagnosed cancer of the uterus.

Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.

The true measure of the justice of a system is the amount of protection it guarantees to the weakest.

If I was afraid of being killed, I would never speak out against the government.

My attitude is, do as much as I can while I'm free. And if I'm arrested I'll still do as much as I can.

If you can make people understand why freedom is so important through the arts, that would be a big help.

If feminism means anything at all, women with power should be addressing their energies to help the girls and women who suffer the pain of genital mutilation, who are at risk of being murdered because of their Western lifestyle and ideas, who must ask for permission just to leave the house, who are treated no better than serfs, branded and mutilated, traded without regard to their wishes. If you are a true feminist, these women should be your first priority.

some things must be said, and there are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice.

However, some things must be said, and there are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice.

There are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice.

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

Once we know of atrocities we cannot remain silent, and knowledge inevitably leads to an urge to protect the innocent.

The lawyer is judged by the virtue of his pleading, and not by the issue of the cause.

An Act of Parliament is at least as complex as a marriage settlement; and it is made much as a settlement would be if it were left to the vote and settled by the major part of persons concerned, including the unborn children. There is an advocate for every interest, and every interest clamours for every advantage.

Our guns and our ships are not, perhaps, very good now. But they would be much worse if any thirty or forty advocates for this gun or that gun could make a motion in Parliament, beat the department, and get their ships or their guns adopted.

For eight years, I've served on the Indian Affairs committee, two years as the ranking member. I've been on that committee since Day One. I will stay on the committee for as long as I'm in the Senate because of my commitment to making a difference for Alaska Natives.

I have done a lot of work for affordable housing, rental housing. I understand the rap on me and other liberals is, oh, we push poor people into homeownership. And it's exactly the opposite of the case. We were trying to prevent those kinds of bad loans.

The problem is, of course, that these interest groups are all asking for changes, but their enthusiasm for change rapidly disappears when it affects the core of their own interests.

I don't think rappers have a responsibility, but for me, I gotta say something. I can't just look at injustice and keep quiet.

Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.