Quotes About Advocacy

Even little voices should be heard.

Our focus has to be on changing reality, not changing laws.

This was always the most painful part of my work: the searching eyes of the mothers and fathers whose children had been killed or were imprisoned, seeing in me some potential help. But the reality is that the fate of their sons and daughters rests largely on the political conditions of Iran, not on my abilities as a lawyer.

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.

The next time a woman of whatever color, or a dark-skinned person of whatever sex aspires to be president, the way should be a little smoother because I helped pave it

different women view different segments of the women's movement agenda as priority items. (From Voices of Multicultural America)

As one put it to me once, "I just wish white women would get as concerned about the health and well-being of black babies being born, as they are about me being able not to have babies.

If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair

It is going to have to be the have-nots — the blacks, browns, reds, yellows, and whites who do not share in the good life that most Americans lead — who somehow arouse the conscience of the nation and thus create a conscience in the Congress. My role, as I see it, is to help them do so, working outside of Washington, perhaps, as much as inside it.

I did this [ran for president as a democrat instead of third party] because I feel that the time for tokenism and symbolic gestures is past. Women need to plunge into the world of politics and battle it out toe to toe on the same ground as male counterparts. (From Voices of Multicultural America)

Always speak up and never talk down.

D. Frederick Sparks

Blackness is not just black straight men. There are gay men in this work doing amazing work. There are queer folks. There are trans folks. There are gay and lesbian folks, bisexual…. There are atheist black people.

Whether it's right or wrong, fight for what you believe in.

I'm not going anywhere until you hear me out." Oh, please no. Anything except having to listen to her lecture. I push the button that calls the nurse. "Can we help you, Alex?" a voice bellows through the speaker. "I'm bein' tortured.

He who speaks on behalf of people he leads, is a great leader.

The official prosecutors] ... were more vengeful on behalf of our injuries than I myself could ever be.

They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.

Animals speak with pure affection. It's important to me to get something going in NY so we can get to be a no-kill city, and give the animals homes and more attention and love.

But if you love animals for all the right reasons- and that's just love and affection- then you're going to go after animals who need you.

If you love your country, then you need to be thinking a lot more critically about what justice.

My main message to folks who love animals is that you can do something every day to help them.

I love being in a courtroom.

I will help the good fight continue until that long awaited moment arrives, when our rights are equal and when the political limits on love have been smashed.