Quotes About Advocacy

This FEMINIST Goes Hard.

To say nothing is saying something. You must denounce things you are against or one might believe that you support things you really do not.

Real women fight for something, other than their own emotions.

We decided to become a society of women, a club to make sure women were protected. The club was something important back then. Not like it is today.

To create a just world for women, we must firstly teach men to be just!

Real men are advocates for women's rights.

Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights. Let us not forget that among those rights are the right to speak freely — and the right to be heard.

All men should be feminists. If men care about women's rights the world will be a better place. We are better off when women are empowered – it leads to a better society.

In protesting for your rights in any form you may, but it's only good, If they can understand your problems and feelings and not only to judge you.

In an ideal world, it would not take a film star to get the media focused on mental illness.

When I did 'Stardust,' I was fighting the studio for things I believed were right.

Burst down those closet doors once and for all, and stand up and start to fight.

At the start of my career, I fought to prevent offshore drilling along the Atlantic Coast.

The first place to start is on enforcement. We who got the ADA passed did the hard part, the heavy lifting.

There was a long period where every time someone was shot or stabbed the BBC would call me. I started to think, 'I'm an actor and a musician, I don't want to be a politician or a spokesperson.'

I've been involved in animal issues for quite a while, going back 24 years. I started reading up on factory farming and slaughterhouses and animal cruelty, and it didn't make sense for me to be part of it.

All my life, I've been lucky to work in social justice, starting as a labor organizer working with low-wage working women.

American Muslims - young American Muslims in particular - are starting to understand that unless they are willing to stand up for all the other oppressed communities in this country, including those discriminated against for their gender or sexuality, then no one will stand up for them.

So many other countries have had female leaders, in fact the U.S. ranks 61st in female representation in government and I think it is startling and sign of a change that needs to be made.

If you are somebody who has a disease, you are not complaining when someone starts to do work for you. That is your hope.

Advocating for yourself in the context of friendship starts with choosing the right people to be part of your inner circle.

I want to promote the introduction of art history in primary schools and to convince the general public that, even in a period of economic crisis, arts funding is an absolute necessity at the federal, state, and local levels.

No matter what stage of life you are graduating from or entering, learning how to build and state your case is something every person in the world should know how to do.

You can see the absence of women in governing bodies from Congress to state legislators, on corporate boards, in tenured positions in academia, and as forepeople in factories.