Quotes About Advocacy

I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.

I know nothing of man's rights, or woman's rights; human rights are all that I recognise.

I'm here, got no choice. But you, you should be telling people.

I ask no favors for my sex.... All I ask of our brethren is that they will take their feet from off our necks.

It seems to me like stealing, for men and women to live in the world and do nothing to make it better.

People who are being punished for doing nothing, for having normative conflict, or for resisting unjustified situations, need the help of other people.

Sometimes we have to fight for other people, as well as ourselves - don't we? People we love, I mean. Otherwise why bother living? What's the point if we don't care enough for those we love to fight for them?

Roe has been a good friend, one women could count on when in trouble. We are on uncertain ground after Casey. Women, justifiably, feel vulnerable at a time so many years after their journey for reproductive freedom started.

But the main thing I learned from the war was that war is unjust, no matter who is pulling the trigger, and that, as my parents taught me, we owe it to each other as human beings to speak out against injustice.

Not only does a single- or even a dual-issue organization condemn you to a small organization, it is axiomatic that a single-issue organization won't last. An organization needs action as an individual needs oxygen. With only one or two issues there will certainly be a lapse of action, and then comes death. Multiple issues mean constant action and life. An

They would like to see better housing, health, economic security, but they are not living in the rotten houses; it is not their children who are sick; it is not they who are working with the specter of unemployment hanging over their heads; they are not fighting their own fight.

I'm someone who believes the truth needs to be heard. And if I'm empowered with the truth, I'm not going to shut up.

As a defense lawyer, he refused to condemn his clients. Everyone else in the system--the cops, the prosecutors, the juries and judges--would take care of that; they didn't need his help.

Too many of you, my friends, are dying. Now it's time for me to do my part and help you.

Some of the folks on both sides might be sincere, but it does seem as if it is only the opposition that cares about the Bill of Rights most of the time.

I'm not a single-issue person, but I spend so much time on Israel because it is so unfairly condemned around the world.

It's time we did something to assert ourselves. After all, we do comprise 10% of the population.

I didn't come out and pay a really painful price often, to be LGBT, to not claim my sexuality at the same time. It's not all right with me to not talk about it so I don't make anybody nervous.

The next time you go shopping, demand more change.

Pop stars are so busy having a career that they don't really have a lot of time for activism.

I'm an activist; I have to be angry all the time. That's what we do!

I will not stand by while the special interests use the same old tactics to keep things exactly the way they are ... Not this time. Not now.

The next time you do a filibuster, keep walking around.

I don't think there was really a time when I have not been politically aware.