Quotes About Advocacy

AIDS is no longer a death sentence for those who can get the medicines. Now it's up to the politicians to create the "comprehensive strategies" to better treat the disease.

Death by drink driving is the only socially acceptable form of homicide.

I don't want a moratorium on the death penalty. I want the abolition of it. I can't understand why a country [USA] that's so committed to human rights doesn't find the death penalty an obscenity.

I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.

People on death row, the treatment of animals, women's right to choose. So much in America is based on religious fundamentalist Christianity. Grow up! This is the modern world!

People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.

I will fight to the death for one's right to be able to practice in their temple, their mosque, or in their church, even if they have a different belief than I do.

The nice thing about money is that you can do good things with it. I still feel like if something needs to be done or we need to raise money for someone on death row, we can find ways to do it.

It is proper that we acknowledge the overwhelming weight of international opinion against the juvenile death penalty.

I strongly believe that each preventable death is one death too many.

What we want is to make sure that people don't go through what I'm going through ... and we have to understand that even since Luke's death, children have been killed.

I advocate the use of force to rescue Terri Schiavo from being starved to death. I further advocate the killing of anyone who interferes with such rescue.

The death penalty doesn't need your assent to continue ... it needs your indifference.

I support the death penalty and will continue to do that.

Katherine of Aragon was speaking out for the women of the country, for the good wives who should not be put aside just because their husbands had taken a fancy to another, for the women who walked the hard road between kitchen, bedroom, church and childbirth. For the women who deserved more than their husband's whim.

I was near to delighted laughter because Katherine of Aragon was speaking out for the women of the country, for the good wives who should not be put aside just because their husbands had taken a fancy to another, for the women who walked the hard road between kitchen, bedroom, church and childbirth. For the women who deserved more than their husband's whim.

But there are good people whose safety depends on me speaking for them. I have promised to keep the king in one mind. It is easier to stand on your head than keep the king to one mind, Will observes, straight as a yeoman, but upside down. If I were you, Majesty, I would stand on your head beside me.

I knew then and I know now that, when it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it. You can't sugarcoat it. You have to take a stand and say, This is not right. —Claudette Colvin

On the other hand, I can't not defend her, since I can't help feeling it is wrong to stand idly by when I hear justice coming under attack, and not come to her defence for as long as I have breath in my body and a tongue in my head. So the best thing is to make what defence I can.

No science or art considers or enjoins the interest of the stronger or superior, but only the interest of the subject and weaker

Lo mío es obedecer a la ley y abogar por mi causa.

People with disabilities deserve the chance to build a life for themselves in the communities where they choose to live.

Peacefully, and patriotically make your voices heard.

I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.