Quotes About Advocacy

You can't stigmatize people, you can't cut away people you admire just because they suffer AIDS. It's just not right.

I decided to run for office because I've seen that elected officials would rather let us suffer than put in the work to actually fight for us.

Women will no longer be silent when they suffer injustices against them.

'Cartel Land' seeks to give voice to the people of Mexico who suffer grievous harm from cartel violence and government corruption.

The likelihood is that you or someone you know closely will suffer from a mental health condition in your lifetime.

Unfortunately, many in our homeless community suffer from severe mental illness.

I don't care who you are, if you don't stand opposed to immoral issues, then you will suffer.

I don't know anyone who's suffered lung cancer.

I expect to plead not for the slave only, but for suffering humanity everywhere. Especially do I mean to labor for the elevation of my sex.

To me, it is one world, and the non-human animals bear the brunt of oppression and suffering.

As we draw bad fumes into our nostrils, let our suffering lungs issue a call to serious action. Let's fight for all, not just some Indians to breathe and live free.

There's no better feeling in the world than knowing that my show played a role in stopping animal abuse or alleviating animal suffering.

The battle was first waged over the right of the Negro to be classed as a human being with a soul; later, as to whether he had sufficient intellect to master even the rudiments of learning; and today it is being fought out over his social recognition.

Suffrage is the pivotal right.

I have joined the 'suffragettes' - the militant party on the woman suffrage question.

We fully believed, so soon as we saw that woman's suffrage was right, every one would soon see the same thing, and that in a year or two, at farthest, it would be granted.

Abolition didn't just happen - people made it happen. Women's suffrage didn't just happen - people made it happen. Civil Rights legislation didn't just happen - people made it happen. And marriage equality didn't just happen, either - people made it happen.

Francois Truffaut was my godfather on 'Sugar Cane Alley.' He believed in me and in that story, and told everyone that it should be made.

It would be a most despicable thing to suggest I would exploit the poor for my own personal gain.

I don't like the women who stand up for the empowerment of women at the expense of men. They try to demonize men, and they try to suggest men all want to keep us down, which is one of the reasons why I don't like that label 'feminist.'

I encourage young people to feel passionately about important issues including climate change. But to suggest that they should strike during school hours is grossly irresponsible.

But do not understand me as saying, or for one moment suggesting, that women legislators should confine themselves to doing only social service work. Not at all.

We decided to speak publicly about suicide because we wanted to make a difference in other people's lives.

Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.