Quotes About Advocacy

I discovered the National Coalition Against Censorship when I felt totally alone in my fight to protect intellectual freedom, and that group changed my life. I was no longer alone.

I am very much in favor of women's rights, being a woman myself, and I support intelligent, successful, independent working women.

I definitely intend to create my own work in the future so that we don't have to keep saying, We don't have work for black women.'

What I intend to do is be just a really fierce advocate for Minnesotans here in Washington, D.C.

Sci-Hub always intended to be legal, and advocated for the copyright law to be repealed or changed, so that it will not prohibit the development of science.

Costa Rica is not afraid to go before any international body.

Britain must be the champion of international law.

I began to lead two lives... one being a kid and the other starting to speak internationally about the environment... and advocating for social and environmental justice.

I loved thinking about how the law could be used to help others, how to interpret it that way. I think that probably comes from growing up in a family where my parents were actively involved in the community.

Feminism is rooted in racial rights and gender rights, and all of those things intersect, and to say that that's not something you can stand behind - it confuses me. I think it's a really great word.

The more I've been able to learn about gay rights and equal pay and gender equity and racial inequality, the more that it all intersects. You can't really pick it apart. It's all intertwined.

I am a big believer in early intervention.

The U.N. now says that one out of three women on the planet will be raped or beaten in their lifetime; we're talking about the desecration of the primary resource of the planet."

Slowly, it dawned on me that nothing was more important than stopping violence toward women—that the desecration of women indicated the failure of human beings to honor and protect life

Unless men are active allies, we'll never end violence against women and girls.

I despise charity. It gives crumbs to a few and silences the others.

We have to say that what happens to women matters to everyone and it matters a lot.

Não aguento mais a passividade dos homens bons. Cadê vocês, merda? Vocês vivem com a gente, transam com a gente, nos têm como filhas, amigas, irmãs, são nutridos, criados e eternamente amados por nós, e como não lutam do nosso lado? Por que não vão à loucura e tomam uma atitude contra nosso estupro e nossa humilhação?

aquilo que faz parte do âmbito pessoal é também um ato político, [...] o diálogo pode ser uma forma de resistência.

A parceria com o movimento comunitário nos ajudou a ver a situação dessas mulheres sob uma lente que analisa a violência contra a mulher por meio de uma perspectiva sociopolítica.

esse não era só um monólogo, só uma peça, mas também um poderoso catalisador de conscientização e justiça.

to be present in our vaginas, to speak of them out loud, to speak of their hunger and pain and loneliness and humor, to make them visible so they cannot be ravaged in the dark without great consequence, so that our center, our point, our motor, our dream, is no longer detached, mutilated, numb, broken, invisible, or ashamed.

I am over the passivity of good men. Where the hell are you? You live with us, make love with us, father us, befriend us, brother us, get nurtured and mothered and eternally supported by us, so why aren't you standing with us? Why aren't you driven to madness and action by the rape and humiliation of us?

Não aguento mais que a violência contra a mulher não seja uma prioridade internacional quando uma em cada três mulheres será estuprada ou espancada ao longo da vida [...].