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Quotes About Advocacy

Workers in the bourgeois countries must fight for equal rights for men and women.
~ Nadezhda Krupskaya
As more and more women, men and young people raise their voices and become active in local government, and more local leaders take action for the safety of women and girls, change happens.
~ Michelle Bachelet
Black women are very capable of leading our organizations. I believe that firmly.
~ Rosa Parks
No woman should be told she can't make her own decisions about her body. If women's reproductive rights come under attack, I will be standing up for women.
~ Kamala Harris
There is no society for the prevention of cruelty to women.
~ Voltairine de Cleyre
A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
~ Gloria Steinem
This year women learned that if we aren't at the table, we're on the menu.
~ Cecile Richards
We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced
~ Malala Yousafzai
The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.
~ Edna O'Brien
I firmly believe today that the only way to stop violence against women is to speak out and refused to be silenced.
~ Zainab Salbi
People will sometimes say, "Why don't you write more politics?" And I have to explain to them that writing the lives of women IS politics.
~ Grace Paley
one hundred percent of the bishops who oppose the repeal of anti-abortion laws are men and one hundred percent of the people who have abortions are women.
~ Mary Daly
Violence against women isn't cultural, it's criminal. Equality cannot come eventually, it's something we must fight for now.
~ Samantha Power
I saw no poor men, except a few intemperate ones. I saw some very poor women; but God and man know that the time has not come for women to make their injuries even heard of.
~ Harriet Martineau
With all my heart I beseech and beg my two hundred million female compatriots to assume their responsibility as citizens. Arise! Arise! Chinese women, arise!
~ Qiu Jin
To anyone out there who has ever been assaulted: You will never be alone. You are never alone. We have your back. I've got your back.
~ Barack Obama
Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.
~ Maya Angelou
Women trapped in violent relationships need to know that there's no shame in talking out and walking out on their abusive partners.
~ Kate Thornton
the struggle for the right to become politicians in itself made women into politicians.
~ Eleanor Rathbone
I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.
~ Hillary Clinton
We are unalterably opposed to the presentation of the female body being stripped, bound, raped, tortured, mutilated, and murdered in the name of commercial entertainment and free speech
~ Susan Brownmiller
Women more than men can strip war of its glamour and its out
~ Lillian Wald
Women should stick together. Didn't you learn anything yet?
~ Grace Paley
We need to alert women everywhere about the seriousness of heart disease.
~ Laura Bush