Quotes About Advocacy

If you cannot commit several hours per week to maintain the liberty that others afforded you, then you, by your inaction and silent voice, abet those who seek to destroy it.

So many Christian leaders have been so tepid or downright silent on the advance of the homosexual agenda.

To be silent is to be passive.

I would rather be alone and a loud voice for action than be silent.

Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue.

I was pursuing my acting career, but I was silent on the LGBT issue, the issue that was closest to me. I knew if I came out then, I'd have had to change careers.

I believe the U.S. has been way too silent on the brutality, the lack of human rights in the Muslim world for women.

Lyme has brought me to my knees; this disease is a silent killer and does not have a face.

I think that any female who gets asked if she's a feminist... it's silly... it's so interesting when people ask females if they're a feminist. Of course every female wants to be equal!

You never look silly when you're defending the American people and their pocketbook.

We have a lot of really boring, silly, stupid politics. We need people to point that out.

Sam was helping animals long before he was Sam Simon. He lived what he believed; his thing was making the world better and having rights for animals, and every area of his life reflected that.

My message is very simple: I'm for women, I'm about women, and I want to help create lanes for more of us.

The PAWS Act is a simple bill that could have a dramatic - and potentially life-saving - effect on the lives of many.

When you're left on the floor of a hospital gasping for breath, or you can't get your kid a school place, the simplest things are your idea of radical.

I'm not a do-gooder. It embarrassed me to be classified as a humanitarian. I simply take part in activities that I believe in.

In struggle one not only fights against something--injustice, oppression--but one must struggle for something equally real but positive. That's the other part of the equation.

How can you ask us to go back to our parlors?" I said, rising to my feet. "To turn our backs on ourselves and on our own sex? We don't wish the movement to split, of course we don't—it saddens me to think of it—but we can do little for the slave as long as we're under the feet of men. Do what you have to do, censure us, withdraw your support, we'll press on anyway. Now, sirs, kindly take your feet off our necks.

the time to assert one's right is when it's denied!

Angelina, I think of you as my friend, the dearest of friends, and it tortures me to go against you, but now is the time to stand with the slave. The time will come for us to take up the woman question, but not yet. The time to assert one's right is when it's denied!

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time to assert one's right is when it's denied!" "I'm sorry

I wanted to speak my conscience and have it matter.

Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.