Quotes About Advocacy

David Cutler wrote in MIT Technology Review, "the single most unused person in health care" is the patient.

This brings home the saying and mantra for the future—"Nothing about me without me"—which should and will undeniably apply to individuals when they assume the role of IAPs.38

The PC [political correctness] movement exists not in order to improve the well-being of those whose oppression it purports to combat. Rather, its purpose is to wrap its proponents in a kind of verbal comfort-blanket.

Gay people never give up!

I think the number one thing Black women and all Black people should be paying attention to is our health.

As all advocates of feminist politics know most people do not understand sexism or if they do they think it is not a problem. Masses of people think that feminism is always and only about women seeking to be equal to men. And a huge majority of these folks think feminism is anti-male. Their misunderstanding of feminist politics reflects the reality that most folks learn about feminism from patriarchal mass media.

We need laws that protect everyone. Men and women, straights and gays, regardless of sexual perversion... ah, persuasion.

I've spent a lifetime in challenge. There's no way in which you can create any meaningful change unless you do that.

He was one of those people who constantly seems to be having a conversation with someone other than the person he's actually talking to—presumably someone much more politically committed. And interested.

When it was my turn and I stood up and called for life, liberty and peace and managed to sit down before I added a hard-boiled egg to the list.

We must take an interest in politics. We must become spies on behalf of justice.

strongly recommend that we proceed with this plan.

But I knew that we would need to do more to get our message across.

I knew it was a hard sell, but I wanted the idea to remain under consideration.

opinion, we needed to get our side of the story out.

from nonprofit organizations to push Obamacare—the same organizations responsible

A strong man stands up for himself, a stronger man stands up for others.

They will do anything for the worker, except become one.

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.

I think this Law, by which I am punished, is both unreasonable in itself, and particularly severe... Polly Baker

Benjamin Franklin

Black Americans are not defeated, the civil rights movement is not dead. If anyone thinks that we are going to stop agitating, they had better think again. If anyone thinks that we are going to stop litigating, they had better close the courts. If anyone thinks that we are not going to demonstrate and protest, they had better roll up the sidewalks.

It doesn't matter if justice is on your side. You have to depict your position as just.

We are confident that the Supreme Court will soon see the direction that this country is headed and enshrine marriage as a constitutional right for all.