Quotes About Advocacy

If I want, when I want), Christiane campaigned for the legalization of both. In 1967, the Neuwirth Act finally legalized the sale of contraceptive devices, but abortion wasn't legalized until 1975, and advertisements for contraceptives remained banned until 2001, four decades after the pill was introduced in America.

Both the Left and the Right have a long history of advocating American retreat and retrenchment. The difference is that liberals want to come home because they think we are not good enough for the world. Conservatives want to wash their hands of the world because they think the world is not good enough for us.

I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.

Anything for Human Rights is constitutional.

So, at least from my perspective of stability and longevity, what you're looking for in representation, labels, agencies, or record producers is people who believe in you, and sometimes the smaller entities are where you'll find them.

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.

I'm a good person. I eat pretty well. I work out. I go to bookstores. I save people. For a living. I have better things to do than get hauled in for a medical checkup every week. Have I complained the last few months? Constantly. Was I a good patient? No. What can I say? When your primary care provider is a shadowy government agency, you have to be your own medical advocate.

He snorted. "Did they tell you that your vagina got you the story?" She smiled sweetly. "My vagina is my most tireless advocate.

"Women's rights will not go back to the Dark Side!" —Ruth Vader Ginsburg

Someone struggled for your right to vote. Use it.

Your vote is your voice.

Women belong in all places where decisions are being made.

I often quoted the lines of Sarah Grimke, one of two wonderful sisters from South Carolina, and they said to legislators in the mid-1900s, I ask no favor for my sex, all I ask of my brethren is that they take their feet from off our necks.

It's better to fight for something than against something.

I had an abortion..(so) I'm here to say, when politicians argue and shout about abortion, they're talking about me – and millions of other women around the country.

If you are a man who is opposed to abortion, you should get a vasectomy.

My attitude is, do as much as I can while I'm free. And if I'm arrested I'll still do as much as I can.

To witness is to make the truth known, but we must remember that most victims have no voice of their own, and that in bearing witness to their stories we must not appropriate them

When I feed the poor, they call me a saint. But when I ask why the poor are hungry, they call me a communist.

If you are for freedom and equal rights, which we hear a lot of talk about these days, then you have to include the LGBTQ community in that. And if you're not willing to put your time where your mouth is, then I don't know quite what you mean by commitment in your life.

But we are not free until all of us are free. So love your neighbor. Please treat her kindly. Ask her her story, then shut up and listen. Black Asian poor wealthy Trans Cis Muslim Christian Listen. LISTEN. And then yell at the top of your lungs. Be a voice for all those who have prisoner tongues, for the people who had to grow up way too young, there is work to be done, there are songs to be sung, Lord knows there's a war to be won.

It doesn't matter if there's a handful of you against many of them. Once you've seen that a cause is right, you're obliged to fight for it. Whether you ever live to see success, or the person who steps into your shoes does, it doesn't matter.

i speak for none of you now,all you plotters of perfect crimes,nor for me, nor for anyone.i speak for those who can't speak,for the deaf and dumb witnesses,for otters and seals,for the ancient owls of the earth.

I am for gay marriage. Or same-sex marriage. I don't want to say it the wrong way. I think people are sensitive to it. I have been painted as being this right-wing zealot on choice. Nothing could be further from the truth.