Quotes About Advocacy

It is high time to compel man by the might of right to give woman her political, legal and social rights. She will find her own sphere in accordance with her capacities, powers and tastes and yet she will be woman still.

acusaron de defender "el comunismo de la propiedad".

person represented by counsel has the right to have that attorney present at a post-indictment identification.

The level of advocacy on behalf of others is a rarity -- and sorely needed. The work of equality is the labour not of the few but the many, including those who have benefited and continue to benefit the most from an unequal system. Change that must take place on a broad social scale must be just that -- broadly social. Everyone has their part to play. But it is not for advocates to occupy spaces intended for the very people they are fighting for.

Never be indiferent to injustice.

The rights of one are as sacred as the rights of a million.

Henry George, who proposed that profits made from a natural resource, like land or coal or oil, should be distributed equally among everyone. No individual, he argued, should build a fortune by laying claim to a collective resource. George believed that everyone was entitled to profit from their labor, but that profits made from the ownership of property should be heavily taxed. The woman who invented the Landlord's Game, Elizabeth Magie, was an advocate of that tax.

Of all creatures that can feel and think, we women are the worst treated things alive

One of my best moments was getting a constituent out of jail in Morocco, by which of course I mean I got him released not that I sprung him.

I really value and appreciate Menaka Guruswamy and Arundhati Katju's contribution in spearheading the historic judgement of decriminalisation of Section 377 in India. Their relentless efforts and fight against the discrimination and violence faced by the LGBTQ community in India was a ray of hope for many of us.

I feel that it's my duty to persuade more people to take part in relevant causes.

Citizens must pressure the American Hospital Association, the American Public Health Association, the Centers for Disease Control and other relevant governmental agencies to make greening our hospitals and medical centers a top priority so that they themselves don't create even more illness.

The way you raise the profile of an issue is by making the issue cool and relevant in pop culture.

I believe that this is the land of religious freedom and that that applies to Muslims. And if I have to make it apply to Muslims with the work that I do, I'm going to do that.

A strong case can be made for religious leaders to speak out on political issues.

Leaders must pick causes they won't abandon easily, remain committed despite setbacks, and communicate their big ideas over and over again in every encounter.

Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant.

I have always been against cruelty to animals and remain so.

How I feel as a person and what I support as a person always remains the same, and that is continuing to support LGBT communities around the world.

The principle though remains the same, and the important thing is CBS fought hard, very hard, to protect that principle and will fight again.

Feminism remains something that needs to be explained to people.

I am passionate. I am political about my country, about what it is, how strong it is, how strong it remains.

Working with the media remains an effective and essential way to raise issues, educate the public, and prod policy-makers and corporate leaders to change for the better.

Making sure women get equal pay for equal work remains one of my top priorities.