Quotes About Advocacy

It is our time to unleash the power of New York's women.

When it comes to politics, unless it's an issue that's really close to home and you feel strongly about, I just don't think you should really talk about it.

Unless children have strong education and strong families and strong communities and decent housing, it's not enough to go sit in at a lunch counter.

The Dream Act and the DISCLOSE Act, to name two, had majorities in both chambers during Obama's first term, but they were filibustered to death. They probably await a similar fate unless the filibuster is reformed.

I want to make the world a better place, for women, mainly.

I think, though, as African-American women, we are always trained to value our community even at the expense of ourselves, and so we attempt to protect the African-American community.

Violence against women can end only when the culprits get punished.

I call on men and boys everywhere to join us. Violence against women and girls will not be eradicated until all of us - men and boys - refuse to tolerate it.

Courage, then, for the end draws near! A few more years of persistent, faithful work and the women of the United States will be recognized as the legal equals of men.

One of the very important ideas of feminism for me has always been women helping and supporting each other.

Women have had the vote for over forty years and their organizations lobby in Washington for all sorts of causes; why, why, why don't they take up their own causes and obvious needs?

No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes.

I am a huge fan of the Black woman. I never hesitate to recommend her when times are bad or things go wrong.

I fought all my life for women to make their own choices, in their personal and professional lives. I made mine.

Women aren't the problem but the solution. The plight of girls is no more a tragedy than an opportunity.

Women have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond.

one of the great weaknesses of the women's rights movement over the past two hundred years has been the tendency of its history to disappear, so that it must be resurrected for each new generation.

It's not the vote women need, we should be armed.

I am passionate about any effort to achieve social justice and equality, particularly for women.

My case was wrongfully decided and has caused great harm to the women and children of our nation.

Playboy, very clearly, from the outset, has fought against the historical repression of women. The notion that we were anywhere else simply defies the reality.

How different the reasoning is that men adopt when they are discussing the cases of men and those of women.

I've often observed that women can be the weakest link in women's rights.

Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.