Quotes About Advocacy

Flo especially took me in hand. When I felt I had to prove the existence of discrimination with statistics, for instance, she pulled me aside. 'If you're lying in the ditch with a truck on your ankle,' she said patiently, 'you don't send someone to the library to find out how much the truck weighs. You get it off!

We must not only vote but fight to vote. The voting booth really is the one place on earth where the least powerful equal the powerful. p176

For women, the only alternative to being a feminist is being a masochist.

Forget about party labels. Just vote on the issues and for candidates who support equality.

As Dr. King once said, "Justice too long delayed is justice denied.

The first step toward speaking for others is speaking for ourselves.

if you don't stand up for yourselves, how can you stand up for anybody else?

In the same way that individual women are often underestimated, a movement of women is also understimated, but the truth is that, if people realize someone is willing to talk about these deep and daily concerns, they show up.

All movements need a few people who can't be fired.

I recommend trying this kind of grassroots organizing for a week or a year, a month or a lifetime—working for whatever change you want to see in the world. Then one day you will be talking to a stranger who has no idea you played any part in the victory she or he is celebrating.

Women are always better liked if we sacrifice ourselves for something bigger—and something bigger always means including men, even though something bigger for men doesn't usually mean including women. In

In the same way that individual women are often underestimated, a movement of women is also underestimated.

I don't have time to explain that the women's movement named domestic violence in the first place, sought its prosecution by police and by new laws, created the first shelters, and has been working for thirty years to explain, for instance, that the moment of leaving is the time when a woman is most likely to be murdered, thus answering questions like "Why doesn't she just leave?

American travel seems to need an advocate.

The idea that women are "our own worst enemies" forces us to admit that we don't have the power to be, even if we wanted to. When

One of the saddest things I hear as I travel is "I don't know enough to be a feminist." Or even "I'm not smart enough to be a feminist." It breaks my heart.

Not only had I never made any such complaints, but at political meetings, I had given my suggestions to whatever man was sitting next to me, knowing that if a man offered them, they would be taken more seriously. You white women, Mrs. Greene said kindly, as if reading my mind, if you don't stand up for yourselves, how can you stand up for anybody else?

As Dr. King once said, "Justice too long delayed is justice denied." If

We could double our chances by working for one of these candidates, not against the other. For now, I've figured out how to answer reporters when they ask if I'm supporting Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama. I just say yes.

All my years of campaigning have given me one clear message: Voting isn't the most we can do, but it is the least. To

The personal is political. When

What Julia Ward Howe had in mind in 1870 when she invented Mother's Day for Peace was a day on which we oppose war and advance peace.

campuses not only help create social justice movements, they need them.

I don't know enough to be a feminist." Or even "I'm not smart enough to be a feminist." It breaks my heart.