Quotes About Advocacy

Women today should have the same rights as men. And all citizens should have the right to speak their minds without fear of imprisonment.

You never know when you lose a case whether it was because the facts were against you, or because the judges had already made up their minds, or if you could have done something differently.

Lincoln merely nominally freed the bodies of Negroes. But Debs would free the bodies and minds of Negroes.

It's not my role or my goal to change people's minds. I would hope they would support me, but it's not for me to make them do so.

I get out in the 'hoods. I want to go to the worst, the grimiest places. That's where I want to be. Those are usually the kids or the communities that kind of get left behind or forgotten about. I feel like I was in that situation at one point. That's where my mindset is and that's what I stand for.

I've done everything imaginable as a mother and a coal miner's daughter to create a brighter future for our children, and it fell on deaf ears.

I learned in the Marines to leave no one behind, but after 34 years in Washington, Mitch McConnell left our coal miners behind years ago.

I'm on the side of miners and their families. And I'll never walk away.

Coal miners work hard and deserve our respect. They also deserve a governor who fights for policies that will give them a fair shot to support their families and get ahead. That's exactly what I'll deliver as governor.

Mandatory minimum sentencing has disproportionately affected blacks, Hispanics and others who often don't have the financial means to fight back.

The DNC says they want minorities to run for office but when they actually do, we don't get the support that we need and deserve.

The right of a minority is so important in a democracy.

Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.

We need more leaders speaking up for minority groups who have been marginalized and attacked.

Minority ethnic issues need to be mainstream issues.

For many young people growing up in minority communities, there is a sense that their lives are disposable. As athletes, we have a platform to let those kids know that their lives are important. That their lives matter to us.

We have to join hands and fight against female infanticide, when life is snuffed out the minute people find out it is a girl.

What are my books but one plea against man's inhumanity to man --to woman-- and to the lower animals?

Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.

Nothing is easier than to get peaceful people to renounce violence, even when they provide no concrete ways to prevent violence from others.

Many desirable things are advocated without regard to the most fundamental fact of economics, that resources are inherently limited and have alternative uses. Who could be against health, safety, or open space? But each of these things is open-ended, while resources are not only limited but have alternative uses which are also valuable.

We don't notice when it shows up across the street or quietly takes up residence in our classrooms. And we just don't take its proponents at their word. Jerry Falwell, D. James Kennedy, Pat Robertson, James Dobson, and any number of other leaders of the Christian Right have told us that they abhor our public schools, and that they pray for the day when such schools cease to exist.

The religious right is quick to extol the principle of free speech when it comes to, say, public school officials preaching to children in their care or shouting at women through bullhorns outside of reproductive health clinics. And yet they are eager to regulate and restrict the speech of medical professionals delivering reproductive health services.

The end goal is to create a new reality on the ground in which women have no real ability to exercise a right that they are supposedly guaranteed.