Quotes About Advocacy

I think that many people are the victims of abuse every single day and can't stand up for themselves. People need to be able to understand that we need to stand united and that abuse should not be happening anymore.

With what I've gone through, I think it's really important to become a voice for abuse victims who have no voice. I want to be able to make a difference.

When I write a story, I try to write them from the perspective of victims. I try to write them from the perspective of families who've been done wrong, who have lost their loved ones or people who have experienced injustice.

All victims deserve justice.

I believe that victims of sexual harassment must be allowed to tell their story on their time, in their own way.

The Human Rights Act has not just given a voice to victims, but to the families who have to fight for the victim where the victim has died.

In my human-rights work, perhaps the most important thing is gaining the trust of the victims.

A top priority of my administration has been to strengthen laws for crime victims and their families.

Victims of crime deserve equal constitutional rights - the same rights as defendants. No more, no less.

Victorian feminists made the mistake of making membership of the sisterhood conditional on signing up to a particular policy agenda. Marxist feminists made a similar mistake of saying, 'You can't be a real feminist unless you join with miners, the unions, the vegans.'

I retweet Amnesty International tweets a lot. It isn't just, 'This person is incarcerated unjustly.' It's also, 'This person was just released.' Those are the victories we work toward, so if we don't inform people of the victories, it does become doom and gloom.

Although each human rights victory energizes us to continue our work, there remains a deep sorrow for those prisoners still wrongfully languishing in jail.

It took 15 years and a Labour government to finally see Section 28 taken off the statute books. But this victory belongs to the LGBT+ activists who campaigned for so many years, fighting for change from the ground up.

My father told me about American democracy. And he said you have to be actively engaged in the political process to make our democracy work. So I've been doing that my entire life. Civil rights movement. The peace movement during the Vietnam conflict. The movement to get an apology and redress for Japanese-Americans.

I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.

My dad was a civil rights lawyer, and he was actually defending conscientious objectors to the Vietnam War.

I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that.

The Vietnamese and the Republicans are, with an intensity, trying to take this seat from which we have done so much for our community - to take this seat and give it to this Van Tran, who is very anti-immigrant and very anti-Hispanic.

As a Third World citizen, I always feel that I need to express my point of view. Sometimes the points of view of Third World countries are never expressed. We don't have that possibility, sometimes, to spread what we feel and how we see things.

Think tanks do have points of view, and they are absolutely entitled to defend them.

I think the NAACP isn't recognized enough for all of the work it does, especially in the field of law. They may have faded from view over the last couple of decades, but they are fighting the good fight.

I'm a mom, and my view of public education begins and ends with the fundamental question: Is this good for children?

The systematic dismantling of reproductive rights, much like the takedown of collective bargaining, has been taking place in full view.

On The Practice, I get to do what I love to do, and I am making a contribution that will, in the end, help raise social consciousness, dispel some of the myths about being large, and change the way that people view and interact with large people.