Quotes About Advocacy

I work toward the liberation of women, but I'm not feminist. I'm just a woman.

The NAACP is a wonderful organization . . . But do you realize if tomorrow morning we had complete integration, all them cats would be outta work?

I'm always skeptical about representations of trans people, especially when trans people are not making the work.

No school can work well for children if parents and teachers do not act in partnership on behalf of the children's best interests

I've always been a feminist, and what I love in my work is being able to explore a full-sided woman and not patronize her.

The Humane Society is so great to work with. Because everyone there is so nice and supportive, and they're all animal lovers like me.

I hope that as my career continues I get to create and work on more LGBT projects and bring LGBT storytelling into more mainstream media!

God is truly on the side of those who work for social justice, especially when we accompany that work with the giving of the Gospel!

... it is the spirit of trade unionism that is most important, the service of fellowship, the feeling that the hurt of one is the concern of all and that the work of the individual benefits all.

Your work is your own private megaphone to tell the world what you believe.

One of the major things I really want to work on now is female rage because that's not dealt with at all - and I have a lot of it.

The thing I'm proudest of is probably like any sort of work I've done in the LGBTQ space.

I love children. I work with UNICEF and one of the reasons I love that is because they deal specifically with children. For me I think it's just really important to always embrace that side of you.

It doesn't matter what party you come from. The key thing is that you work on behalf of the people rather than on behalf of the party.

In and out of government, I've always been willing to take on complicated, sometimes unpopular, issues and work them through to have a solution.

I sort of kept my hand in writing and went to work for the Sierra Club in '52, walked the plank there in '69, founded Friends of the Earth and the League of Conservation Voters after that.

Why are we not valuing the word 'feminism' when there is so much work to be done in terms of empowerment and emancipation of women everywhere?

Now we're in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change - we're doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change - inch by inch, day by day.

We work for the families back home, we do not work for the lobbyists that prowl the halls of the capital building, do not forget who we work for.

People who have committed to a service/advocacy role will tell you that some of the sublimest pleasure they have ever experienced comes in the context of that work. You get way more than you give.

The only thing that weakens worry is work, so I will be working for Marie Corfield

I'll do my life work, sticking up for the love between man and woman.

More conservative advocacy work often encourages portrayals of trans people as people who deserve rights. Deservingness, of course, corresponds to national racial, gender and ability norms.

Spreading an idea is hard work.