Quotes About Advocacy

I'll keep fighting every day to put pressure on Senate leaders to do what's right for Kansas.

As long as there's a few farmers out there, we'll keep fighting for them.

I don't want to be a musician forever. I want to keep going to school and become a lawyer for women's rights and also use the law to help women.

There are brilliant out lesbians and gay men and bisexuals and transgendered people and heterosexuals keeping the fire of change alive. Not a day goes by when I don't feel grateful to them for their work.

Fighting injustice keeps you young.

Robert F. Kennedy Juvenile Justice Collaborative was formed in 2009 to improve federal youth reentry policy through advocacy, coalition building, and giving voice to youth who are directly impacted by the justice system.

I deeply wish to help move Kentucky and our country forward and I can assure you that I will continue to speak out on the important issues of the day.

Feminism, as I see it, is not about counting women in key jobs.

I think of those who are so much less fortunate than me all the time. I came out to people clapping and an outpour of support. And the reality is, for a lot of people, they get kicked out of their homes or are faced with violence.

The things that make me very angry are injustice and bullying. If I see someone bullying a woman or child in the street, or kicking a dog, I go completely mad.

My friends at PeTA India and I encourage everyone to treat animals with kindness and respect, just as we all want to be treated every day.

If Martin Luther King came back, he'd say we need another civil rights movement built on class not race.

I remember plastering the kitchen with Black Power pictures of Angela Davis.

I don't necessarily see myself as an activist, running down the street and knocking at every door.

I am a pro-democracy activist asking for free elections in Hong Kong.

The need for health care doesn't come with a party label.

If you want to call me an activist attorney general, I will proudly accept that label.

It's important for women to have each other's backs. I'd like my label to give women the resources they need to flourish.

I think we need to not speak over black women, not assign them labels.

The labor movement is our brother's keeper! The labor movement is our sister's keeper!

I dream for a world which is free of child labour, a world in which every child goes to school. A world in which every child gets his rights.

As a former president of the National Union of Students and a Labour councillor in the London Borough of Redbridge, I have been attending the three main party conferences since 2004.

My message to Thunberg and all of her British counterparts is simple: the Labour party's door is open. We hear you, and we will work with you to do what needs to be done.

I think unionization of labour is a great thing.