Quotes About Advocacy

With my ministry of light, part of what I do is work on the California Alliance For Arts Education.

I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ever work or demand the ballot for the Negro and not the woman.

I teach at Eastern University, which is highly committed to doing work among the poor and the oppressed peoples of the world. We have a special commitment to the city.

Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away.

The Teenage Cancer Trust does incredible work supporting and caring for teenagers and young adults with cancer, and it's a cause that is really close to me and my family.

I'm involved in the work around prison rights in general.

If you believe that men and women have equal rights, if someone asks if you're feminist, you have to say yes because that is how words work.

You've got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.

My job is to continue to work very hard, to make sure the American people understand who I am, what I believe in, what I'll fight for. It's why I have been so accessible to the press.

Women should work with local and state leaders and be vocal about ensuring there's more diversity and more women involved.

People love me or hate me and all I think about is the people that I know and suffer with different causes and carry on my charity work and that's what keeps me alive really.

The country needs the political work of women to-day as much as it has ever needed woman in any other work at any other time.

If the ballot doesn't work, we'll try something else. But let us try the ballot.

We as a music ­community have our own issues about advocacy, copyright, intellectual ­property, being paid fairly for the work that we do.

Tonight we light these candles to honor the value and the work of Jyoti Singh's short, promising life, she was India's daughter. Tonight she's our daughter too.

Justice is not always an open and shut case - sometimes we have to work for it. If you want peace, you must work for justice.

I've come to be pretty selective about the type of advocacy that I do, because I kind of feel like it's stronger to just do my work and let it speak for itself.

We need, in a special way, to work twice as hard to help people understand that animals are fellow creatures, that we must protect them and love them as we love ourselves...

I think everything in my life has led to my animal welfare work.

I should have written more. I should have written more during the period when I just liked so much doing the political work in the streets.

Lawyers work hard and, like us, they're human, many of them.

I'm asking you in your sermons to do the work of the Lord here on earth. I ask for your help in getting that message out urgently tomorrow.

I get along great with directors, but I think some producers would tell you I'm a pain. They may say I'm tough to work with, but I have a great passion for what I do. I believe in fighting for it.

The last thing I would ever do though is actively work against another woman.