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Quotes About Advocacy

A man without a vote is man without protection.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours?
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The revolution of equality between men and women has began, there is no going back
~ Gertrude Mongella
It is the duty of every man to uphold the dignity of every woman.
~ Pope John Paul II
We know that if one man's rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.
~ Robert Kennedy
I think if more people would understand how simple and what really feminism is, I would imagine that most men I know are feminists without verbalising or saying so.
~ Hozier
The true face of the unions is not now a man in a hard hat as much as it is a woman in a classroom or in cleaning smocks.
~ Karen Nussbaum
When we too are armed and trained, we can convince men that we have hands, feet, and a heart like yours;.
~ Veronica Franco
We're not descended from fearful men - not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular.
~ Edward R. Murrow
I honestly never understood how violence against women became a women's issue. 95 percent of the violence men are doing to women.
~ Eve Ensler
There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor.
~ Gerrit Smith
So why are we having to fight in 2012 against politicians who want to end access to birth control? It's like we woke up in a bad episode of 'Mad Men'.
~ Cecile Richards
To affirm that men and women are persons and as persons should be free, and yet to do nothing tangible to make this affirmation a reality, is a farce.
~ Paulo Freire
Cruel irony, the poor man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.
~ Albert Camus
Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
~ Barbara Deming
He was one of these men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Growing up with the childhood that I had, I learned to never let a man make me feel helpless, and it also embedded a deep need in me to always stick up for women.
~ Christina Aguilera
Unless men are active allies, we'll never end violence against women and girls.
~ Eve Ensler
Until the day comes when the senseless killing ends, we will all have to fight like wildlife warriors to protect our precious planet.
~ Terri Irwin
When you help an animal, do your absolute best to make sure you don't harm it at the same time, and Never walk past a problem with an animal—fix it.
~ Terri Irwin
Reverend Samuel Worcester was released from a Georgia prison, after serving four years of hard labor for speaking out against the mistreatment of Cherokee Indians.
~ Terri Jean
When one woman doesn't speak, other women get hurt.
~ Terry Tempest Williams
I repose in this quiet and secluded spot, not from any natural preference for solitude, but finding other cemeteries limited as to race, by charter rules, I have chosen this that I might illustrate in my death the principles which I advocated through a long life, equality of man before his Creator.
~ Thaddeus Stevens
We should remember that there are few pleasures greater than promoting your moral enthusiasms at other people's expense.
~ Theodore Dalrymple