Quotes About Advocacy

It's tragic when people think feminism is a dirty word.

When people affected by epilepsy are reluctant to expose their condition, the public remains in the dark about it - a tragic irony that has made patient care and raising funds for research more than challenging.

The only thing I advocate for is for equality for female athletes because we train just as hard, and we're always having a lot of head-to-head clashes, always competing against each other.

Women do not get enough attention in a healthcare professional's office. We have been trained as healthcare professionals to look 'lightly' at women's complaints.

Women in business are talented leaders who can share their skills as trainers, mentors and advocates.

I would be a traitor to these poor burned bodies if I came here to talk good fellowship.

I shall stand for freedom of thought and expression in a place where it has been trampled and penalized.

I don't really get mad. But if I see a helpless animal being treated cruelly I will transform into the Incredible Hulk.

If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society.

A book I often refer to by Naomi Klein is called 'No Is Not Enough'. It's not enough to be against something. You have to actually be for something. A better alternative. For me, that's about transformation.

We must always refill and ensure there is a critical mass of leaders and activists committed to nonviolence and racial and economic justice who will keep seeding and building transforming movements.

I strongly support the rights of transgender individuals. I will not denigrate or deny their struggles.

It took me about a year to understand and to feel the support from the transgender community.

Obviously the transgender movement has not progressed in the way that the gay and lesbian movement has. But I'm an activist - that's just the kind of person I am.

I am a huge fan of the transgender community.

We have some amazing people that are standing up for transgender people, and it's very cool to see that.

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender teens are bullied and ostracized in epidemic proportions. It's disgusting, and it must change.

Because you never know when a transgender person is going to come into your life, you need to be prepared, and you need to be ready to help them.

Every single lesbian and transgender woman is a woman.

I think that a lot of people don't understand how much discrimination transgender people actually face. They think that we're just kind of saying it to put it out there and get sympathy, but that's not true at all.

The fight for justice for the transgender community is largely invisible to our fellow citizens, despite the rampant systematic discrimination of trans people - those whose gender identity differs from the sex they were assigned at birth.

Transgender people frequently face bias in court and are assigned unsupportive public defenders, factors which lead to more extreme sentences and longer incarcerations.

I hope I can help convince people there that being transgender is not a big deal and that we are just average people trying to go to school, work, and live good lives.

I wanted people not to care about whether you were gay, straight, black, white, transgender, whatever it may be... That being said, there's more work to be done... I still want to change the world, absolutely.