Quotes About Advocacy

Multiple studies show that increased contraceptive access, including better insurance coverage policies, over-the-counter availability, and comprehensive sex education, dramatically reduces rates of both unintended pregnancy and abortion. If antiabortion activists were truly interested in lowering abortion rates, they would champion such measures. Instead, they support measures that interfere with access.

It is unconscionable that we ration health care by the ability to pay.... your heart breaks. Health care should be a given.

Heroic acts aren't just about running into a burning building to save someone. It's also rising up and saying, "No, I will not let my brothers and sisters be treated this way or the community that I live in harm the vulnerable.

We can often become so focused on tangible care, connection, or advocacy with others that we neglect our own souls.

First and foremost, I'm a feminist. And basically that stems from a strong belief that all people and creatures deserve equal opportunity, rights and respect.

I'd hesitated to have a wedding because my gay and lesbian friends don't have that right.

I would like to end world hunger and create world peace, stop corruption, stop drugs getting to kids.

I am willing to make people uncomfortable so that my daughter doesn't have to!

If you accept the unacceptable without being angry, then there is something wrong with you.

This is not about dueling lawyers; this is about lawyers as problem solvers." Kendall Coffey on the pending presidential election.

Pitbulls are like a gun you can pet.

No President has ever done more for human rights than I have.

Who was going to tell these women that they didn't have to live this way? I was.

For Justice, though she's painted blind, Is to the weaker side inclin'd.

The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them.

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Dante assigned the hottest circle of hell to those who do nothing in the face of evil. Life shouldn't be about pursuing pleasure or being safe, being comfortable. It's about helping others, and reaching for what's right, and trying to make this a better world.

And it seemed at that moment that I could hear an inner voice saying to me, "Martin Luther, stand up for righteousness. Stand up for justice. Stand up for truth.

Do you think the people you preach to have a feeling of love?" the young man asked. "Well, I'm not talking about weak love," King explained. "I'm talking about love with justice. Weak love can be sentimental and empty. I'm talking about the love that is strong, so that you love your fellow men enough to lead them to justice.

it is rare, though, that a great wrong is committed by one people against another without some among the perpetrators protesting the deed.

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My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.

Mom was adamantly pro-choice. She had a bumper sticker on the car that read If you can't trust me with a choice, how can you trust me with a child?

Franklin Roosevelt was very concerned about environmental issues.