Quotes About Advocacy

We've always been a band that stood up for what we thought was right.

I think I have a very good reputation amongst the gay population and among the whole country because I stood up on the issue of gay rights. It is not easy to stand up on that issue when you are single and male in New York City. I did it anyway.

Even when influential political and media figures vehemently complained about the criticisms I wrote, Salon's editors unfailingly stood behind my work.

I grew up in a highly political home. My mother was the co-chair of the 300 Group, an organisation whose aim was to get more women MPs into parliament, and she herself stood in the 1987 election, the year before she died.

We worked very well with Mark Sanford. We stood shoulder to shoulder fighting for the principles that we believe in. But another person that stood there as well was a legislator, State Senator Larry Grooms.

Librarians have always stood up for writers and readers in every kind of community across this country.

Google that, 'old white men,' and you'll find that comes out of the mouths of liberals in a daily basis across the country. They're disparaging a group of people, and it's time somebody stood up for that group of people.

Hillary stood with us, as she has stood with so many over the years, and we are proud to stand with her for our country now.

I haven't been afraid to speak my mind with anything, and I have always stood up for what I believe in.

Billie Jean King always was there for me as a role model. She always fought for equality, and that always stood out as I was coming up.

I have always stood up to protect women's access to safe and legal abortion, birth control and health care at Planned Parenthood.

I'm proud to have stood with the LGBTQ community my entire career.

Democrats have stood shoulder-to-shoulder with Israel since its founding.

I will tell my children that Mr. Trump fought for the little guy, for the mom and pop in Erie County who lost all hope. While Mr. Trump was far from perfect, he stood by people of faith who love America.

My mom drew a line in the sand and said they would not be putting me on Ritalin. My mom liked my competitive nature, and she stood up for me.

When Matt Bevin tried to bully teachers and illegally cut their pensions, I proudly stood with them to fight back and win.

There have been times I have stood in for women.

Let us give publicity to H.I.V./AIDS and not hide it, because the only way to make it appear like a normal illness like TB, like cancer, is always to come out and say somebody has died because of H.I.V./AIDS, and people will stop regarding it as something extraordinary.

One of the things I think I can do in my lifetime is stop to remind myself that - and keep affirming that - women can sell movies.

I am not going to stop speaking out on behalf of policies that I think are right - regardless of ideology, party or political expediency.

I stopped making films to look after animals.

Animals don't have anyone to protect them. If we don't stand up, the people who are harming animals will never get stopped.

Stopping Vieques bombing range good; sooner is better.

In all, dozens upon dozens of groups and organizations have prioritized stopping the killing in Darfur before there is no one left to be killed. It is high time that we, the U.S. Congress, join our name to that list.