Quotes About Advocacy

A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders.

I'll be honest with you, I really struggle with the conversation around gun control.

Guns are bad, I tell you.

I'm concerned about how accessible guns are.

We must get rid of all the guns.

I am all for controlling guns.

I think guns are terrible.

The last thing we need is efforts by some politicians and the NRA to arm educators and allow more guns in our schools.

The xx do not condone guns!

I'm so in favor of gay marriage that I even married a guy.

I have always believed that I should have had no difficulty in causing my rights to be respected.

And we did it because it's time for City Hall to stop looking out for City Hall and start looking out for the people like you and me who are footing the bill.

The fight against AIDS and the fight for the emancipation of women go hand-in-hand.

My acting and activism go hand-in-hand, and they really support one another.

Fuck the drug war. Dropping acid was a profound turning point for me, a seminal experience. I make no apologies for it. More people should do acid. It should be sold over the counter.

God made them, wrote one man who said his son was homosexual. They did not choose their status. ... It is not a medical matter. ... You know there are quite as many people among them as among your so called 'normal.' ... Let your campagin remove the penal laws which make these 'diseased' people a prey for mackmailers. Give them recognition and let them live their lives.'

Women are builders of civil society. We are the ones who are going to build it. You know why? We have no choice. Either you shut up, and you are humiliated, or you do what I'm doing. You scream.

It's not good enough to believe women matter if they only matter in the U.K. They have to matter everywhere. As long as there's an idea that women don't matter in the world, then all women are diminished.

Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them.

Now, I have always believed that women are not victims; we are agents of change, we are drivers of progress, we are makers of peace - all we need is a fighting chance.

I don't have a horror story to share like the ones we have heard from so many women in the #MeToo movement... But when you really listen to women, you begin to understand the million little ways in which all women are made less and denied the opportunity to contribute to their communities and their country.

I am a feminist. Women are discriminated against in so many ways, and they make up half the population.

Women in Africa, generally a lot needs to be done for women. Women are not being educated, not only in Angola but my trip to Nigeria, one point I would make over and over again was that women need to be educated too.

Women are called upon to defend every bit of progress we have made against particularly virulent attack. But we must also hold out a vision, put forth a positive agenda of what women need and want and then move forward toward that dream.