Quotes About Advocacy

You need somebody to stand up for you. You're the little guy, you just don't realize it yet. The Commonwealth has all the aces, and you don't even know you're playing cards.

Change doesn't happen just because we think something is wrong. Change happens because we think something is wrong and then don't stop fighting until it's right.

On this subject I do not which to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. No No Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present. I am in earnest I will not equivocate I will not retreat a single inch and I will be heard.

Grant, in his message, has remembered all classes and conditions of men to Congress,

Unfortunately, we are still in an age where individuals may be discriminated against because of health conditions.

Nurses serve their patients in the most important capacities. We know that they serve as our first lines of communication when something goes wrong or when we are concerned about health.

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

The most important thing about virtue is to talk as if you're in favor of it.

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place.

I'm not a big fan of Women's Liberation, but maybe it will help women stand up for the respect they're due.

Our wombs are no place for poisons. Our babies have the right to be born toxic-free, it's time for a complete overhaul of the current system.

Ten years ago, foster parents typically earned only 80-cents per hour (Time magazine, 10-8-90, p.44). In 2010, the range was $446 to $667 per child per month. For the difficult challenge of fostering a child needing "specialized care" there is an incremental increase of $84 or $169 per month (subsidy determined by the child's social worker).

Mary Woolley wasn't only a suffragist; she was also a feminist. Feminism is not a prejudice, she said, It is a principle.

All feminists are suffragists, but not all suffragists are feminists, as one feminist explained.

All feminists are suffragists, but not all suffragists are feminists," as one feminist explained. Feminists rejected the idea of women as reformers whose moral authority came from their differentness from men—women were supposedly, by nature, more tender and loving and chaste and pure—and advocated instead women's full and equal participation in politics, work, and the arts, on the grounds that women were in every way equal to men.

Nobody talked as much as Kiki did about the possibility of fairness.

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are. —BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Women and men have to fight together to change society-and both will benefit.

I know a lot of the work that paved the way for women happened before I was around... I was never that feminist girl demanding equality, but maybe that's because I've never really faced inequality.

And I spoke out on women's rights, like equal pay for equal work.

There have always been great defenses of poetry, and I've tried to write mine, and I think all of my work and criticism is a defense of poetry to try and keep something alive in poetry.

I wanted you to fight for me. I wanted you to say that there was n one else that you could ever be with and that you wanted to be with me.

Makes me sick to my stomach when I hear about girls being mistreated or abused. Smh at you weak 'grown men'... learn how to represent.

Silence is complicity. Speak now or surrender your ground.