Quotes About Advocacy

The very first email I got [was] from a women's group saying 'We don't want this stimulus package to just create jobs for burly men.'

Some people don't want to be morally consistent. They just want to be tied to their one issue.

Female directors, directors of color are a big thing for me, which are both important voices and potent voices that need to be heard. That's how I want to engage myself as an actor going forward.

If everyone who wants to see an end to poverty, hunger and suffering speaks out, then the noise will be deafening.

Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity.

The people I'm honored to represent in Missouri and all over the country want leaders to address their kitchen table everyday problems.

What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness.

I'm the only girl songwriter that fights for a lot of things. I fight for songwriting fees, which record labels want you to shut up about.

Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union to represent that thinking.

An organization which claims to be working for the needs of a community - as SNCC does - must work to provide that community with a position of strength from which to make its voice heard. This is the significance of black power beyond the slogan.

How come you don't work fourteen hours a day? Your great-great-grandparents did. How come you only work the eight-hour day? Four guys got hanged fighting for the eight-hour day for you.

As a former professional patient advocate, I believe prescription drugs are an essential part of high-quality medical treatment, and I supported enactment of the Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act.

Many Abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman's rights.

The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.

A woman growing up under American ideas of liberty in government and religion, having never blushed behind a Turkish mask, nor pressed her feet in Chinese shoes, cannot brook any disabilities based on sex alone, without a deep feeling of antagonism with the power that creates it.

Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.

One-half of the people of this nation today are utterly powerless to blot from the statute books an unjust law, or to write there a new and a just one.

The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons? And I hardly believe any of our opponents will have the hardihood to say they are not.

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences.

Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!

Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.

I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less.

Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.

Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.