Quotes About Advocacy

Have you noticed that all the people in favour of birth control are already born?

There are so many students out there who said they don't understand NUS or know how to get involved, and don't think the priorities and policies of NUS represent them and reflect their interests.

I want our party to step up its efforts to reflect and champion the concerns of everybody who has reached the second half of their lives.

We owe it to the audience to put more characters onscreen that reflect them and that speak to issues of race and gender as well as to a character's sexual preference.

Aside from my own fight, I was continuously engaged in the fight for others. So, for decades, all I did was fight. What that did to me is it didn't give me the time to reflect on my own feelings.

Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.

The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.

Mark Zuckerberg has started an advocacy group for immigration reform.

I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten.

We need to decouple the movement for comprehensive immigration reform and justice for immigrants from the legislative process and from the Democratic Party process. They are too linked.

Immigration reform is a must, an amnesty. So that's my position. I've been pushing that one since before it was popular.

Nurses are on the front lines of our care. And they need to be at the foundation of health care reform. Let's get health care done - and done right - by ensuring the amount of nurses we need to provide quality care for all.

We have a lot of folks who talk about immigration reform but haven't put their name on a bill.

We need criminal justice reform. You have heard people talk about that all over the country. I was able to work on that specific issue at home.

As we continue to work to pass comprehensive immigration reform, we must take action to stop these predators who are exploiting immigrants attempting to play by the rules.

I want immigration reform to come into fruition, and I want it to be comprehensive, and I want it to have a path to citizenship, and I want to be involved politically every day.

I have gone from a proponent of campaign finance reform to a revolutionary during my time in public service.

Prison reform, peace, and a presidential pardon - just a portion of Kushner's portfolio.

I was always a reformer. My father and mother were progressives, and they believed in the universal vote, vote for women, land reform, and a lot of things which at one time were not accepted; they're much more accepted now.

I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.

Our laws must be fixed to keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people. We have to keep speaking out for common-sense reforms. If we do, we can beat the gun lobby and save lives.

My favorite charity is the Women's Refugee Commission and the Nomi network.

My commitment to refugees comes from a very personal place.

I got a job as a human rights and refugees officer, working on youth-based projects. But I realized all the kids I was working with were far more into 'The Daily Show' than the policy briefings.