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Quotes About Advocacy

Remember what Susan B. Anthony said? 'Failure is impossible.' Failure is possible if women don't vote.
~ Madeleine M. Kunin
Those of us focused on issues related to social justice and equality are grateful for the significant steps President Obama has made to advance women's equality and status all over the world.
~ Christy Turlington
It is Republicans that have led the fight for women's equality. Go back through history and look at who was the first woman to ever vote, elected to office, go to Congress.
~ Marsha Blackburn
I would love for women to be focused on maximum wage, and I have fought to be recognized with equality for a long time.
~ Marsha Blackburn
My mum fought for feminism in her day so instilled in me the importance of equality. She taught me so much about women.
~ Chris Evans
For women to achieve equal representation in leadership roles, it's important that they have the backing of men as well as women.
~ Adam Grant
My mission in life is to assist women in social and political empowerment through business and education.
~ Joyce Banda
A society that respects women needs to elect leaders who care more about women's lives than they do about their or their company's bottom line.
~ Jackson Katz
My feminism, as intended by me, extends to empowering women to make legal choices, not to judge the legal choices they make. My fight is for rights.
~ Maajid Nawaz
It's time to make our government work for all of us... and not just the 1%.
~ Bernie Sanders
I work for the suffering of the common man, something I am very proud of and will continue to do.
~ Abdul Sattar Edhi
Don't be a marshmallow. Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk. Stop being vegetables. Work for Justice. Viva the boycott!
~ Dolores Huerta
If you want peace, work for justice.
~ Pope Paul VI
I came to Washington to work for God, FDR, and the millions of forgotten, plain common workingmen.
~ Frances Perkins
I work with The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. I sit proudly as one of only two recovering addicts on their board.
~ Jamie Lee Curtis
Very few people in prison have voices that go beyond the wall. It's my job to do the work for them because they have no one.
~ Mumia Abu-Jamal
Remove every barrier you can to fandom. A fan will be an evangelist for your work.
~ Dave Kellett
Work for the things that you care about.
~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg
I'm very feminist in the way I look at the world, and that worldview must somehow be part of my work.
~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I'm most proud of my work in the LGBTQ space. Feels like, above all else, that's something I want to do for the rest of my life.
~ Troye Sivan
I think we brought to the world, the United States anyway, the whole idea of boycotting as a nonviolent tactic. I think we showed the world that nonviolence can work to make social change.
~ Dolores Huerta
I work with the Humane Society a lot and have three rescue cats.
~ Ian Somerhalder
We should work to guarantee that there is a midwife or health worker by every woman's side during childbirth.
~ Liya Kebede
When you win an election, what you really win is a chance to go to work for working families who need a voice in Minnesota.
~ Al Franken