Quotes About Advocacy

Marriage equality is not an issue of politics: it is an issue of justice achieved by political means.

We want equality for everyone and justice when it's time for that.

Both at home and abroad, Ivanka Trump has been a strong and confident advocate for female equality.

My mother has always been a proponent of equality on the screen.

I'm an e-patient: equipped, enabled, empowered, engaged. I'm no clinician, but I do everything in my power to help them, to play an active role in my own care, and even in the design of care.

We're going forward until we have an equitable and safe world for women.

I was a proponent of the ERA.

Women's rights are more important than their ethnic rights.

I hate food evangelists.

'Eve's Daughter' - that's like, 'Make way, women are cool.' I feel like it's my responsibility to try and do at least a little bit for my own daughter.

I never personally complained; everybody else complained for me.

anyone who says'by any means necessary' is a violent statement is violent themselves, because it is a comprehensive statement... It could be political, social, religious.

I'm not meant to be part of the things that are wrong with the world, but neither am I meant to run from them. I'm meant to fight against them. I can't hold my own in the ring, but out in the world, I do know how to fight. With words. With truth.

The West in general should stand up more for its own values. It is not always worthwhile to compromise.

when you educate yourself about clitoredectomies, infibulation, forced prostitution, rape as a war tactic, patriarchal religions, women painters, filmmakers, poets, writers, activists, politicians, sex-industry workers, historians, archelogoists and musicians, that's self-protection.

What if one out of every three multinational corporation CEO's were raped every year? Don't you think that would raise a kind of ruckus?

Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace.

The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.

To be a vegetarian is to disagree - to disagree with the course of things today... starvation, cruelty - we must make a statement against these things. Vegetarianism is my statement. And I think it's a strong one.

True fame is not determined by the amount of people who heard of you, rather by the amount of people who support you.

Women have always been courageous... They are always fearless when protecting their children and in the last century they have been fearless in the fight for their rights.

Bullies are almost always outnumbered by the bullied. We just need to organize.

Diabetes is a disease that's had a deep impact on my family. My little brother has had type 1 diabetes since he was a baby and I have spent time learning about the disease and trying to bring attention to it so that one day soon we will reach a cure.

But as Warren explained in a law review article published in 2021, this endless, exhausting work of bearing witness is at least theoretically important because "there is virtue in screaming into the face of deafening indifference, if only because the sound of my voice reminds me that I have not yet succumbed to it.