Quotes About Advocacy

Woman suffrage is an unjust, unreasonable, unspiritual abnormality. It is a hard, undigested, tasteless, devitalized proposition. It is a half-fledged, unmusical, Promethean abomination. It is a quack bolus to reduce masculinity even by the obliteration of femininity.

Unless the issue of the empowerment of women is addressed, the practice of women being unfairly treated will remain unresolved.

Even more troubling, not only are Asians largely unseen at the front line of the immigration debate, they are not using the resources available to help them manage their undocumented status.

My wish is to be a catalyst, to push for solutions, to broker peace talks, to ensure accountability, especially for those who committed and are still organizing unspeakable crimes.

We have to go to war against the people who enable the gun violence, the people who stop us from keeping guns out of the hands of mentally unstable people, of felons, and that means the NRA leadership.

I will flight for the people until my last breath.

You never completely have your rights, one person, until you all have your rights.

Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you.

If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed.

Today, people like Reese Witherspoon and Meryl Streep have vowed to improve the opportunities for women, but those promises are still unusual.

I've been involved in the Conservative party for two decades. I've fought for the party. I have an unusual background - I'm not your typical Tory recruit. I've spent a long time evangelising about why people should look at the Conservative party seriously.

Since being elected to the City Council, I have been unwavering in my commitment to address issues uniquely impacting women and girls and advance policies that stabilize and strengthen our communities.

The courage in journalism is sticking up for the unpopular, not the popular.

It's important for everyone to stand up for what they believe in.

If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much.

I would not have had the same personal commitment to Alzheimer's disease if it had not been for my mother and my upbringing.

I believe that what is legislated bleeds down into everything. So if the legislation continues to uphold anything that doesn't support equal rights and civil rights, that bleeds down into Matthew Shepard being murdered.

Obviously, I'll keep fighting to uphold the Constitution.

The president of the United States, his role is to uphold and to fight for the rights of every person, every American.

Canadians are known for having a social conscience, and so our political leaders need to do more to uphold that reputation on the international stage.

People send their kids to law school to uphold the rule of law - not to fight in the streets for justice and not to be beaten up.

During Women's History Month, we celebrate milestones in gender equality, and we uplift the stories of women who have impacted our world with their creativity, advocacy, service, invention, and discovery.

I will always think about uplifting the lives of the poor because I know what they feel. I have not heard about poverty; I have not read about poverty: I have experienced poverty.

The work that I engage with, whether it's self-generated or collaborative, is uplifting and supporting historically marginalized and disenfranchised people, because when I uplift up those groups, I'm uplifting myself and supporting myself - it works out in that way.