Quotes About Advocacy

People ask me what men can do, and I tell them, even if you're not a perpetrator, you should believe women - or queer folks - when they say that they have been violated.

I pray that people will stand by women who have been violated and victimized.

There is no country in this world that is immune to violating human rights.

My hope is that the 21st century will be the first century where there will be no violation of human rights, and to that end, Japan would like to do our outmost.

The work of woman is not to lessen the severity or the certainty of the penalty for the violation of the moral law, but to prevent this violation by the removal of the causes which lead to it.

Yes, I am very unhappy, extremely anguished at human rights violations against Kashmiris in India or against Rohingyas in Burma or, for that matter, Christians in Orissa; but obviously, I am going to be more concerned of violations taking place in my own house because I am closer to the people who I live with. I have more passion for them.

If you are a lawyer, and you want to take on easier cases, you can prosecute traffic violations or something. You'd have a very high rate of success, and you probably could sleep more easily at night. But that's not what drives me.

Human rights is something that wasn't hard to be inspired to write about because there have been so many violations of those rights.

We've never advocated violence; violence is inflicted upon us. But we do believe in self-defense for ourselves and for black people.

My opinion is that protesting, there's no problem with it, as long as it is peaceful without violence, without vandalism.

We have to think about the state of women in a more holistic way going forward. We can't be segregated by class and race as we have been. Because even the women at the top can do something about violence against women, right?

I'm not going to appeal to violence or aggression - of course not.

I don't support violence, period.

I don't believe in violence against women.

As legislators and as Members of Congress, it is our obligation to speak up for those who are being ignored in our society. The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) does just that.

The use of violence by individuals... is not a position that I support or would ever want to be in again.

Preventing gender-based violence is critical to establishing safe, productive, and healthy workplaces for all.

Donald Trump has advocated violence - I saw him do it several times on the campaign trail.

With my history, unfortunately, with my family suffering through gun violence, it's something that I feel passionately about, that even though the odds are certainly always uphill, that doesn't mean that I will stop fighting to try to change that.

Far too many LGBTQ individuals are the victims of violence and hatred, and we must all fight together to ensure that no one is erased or marginalized because of how they identify or who they love.

We can protect the Second Amendment, we can protect our constitutional rights, and we can still do something about this public health crisis that is gun violence in our communities.

We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us.

Violence may be a good focus to organize around, but we have to look at women's lives in our entirety.

I know that it isn't just violence against women, it's how do we support ourselves and our families, how do we deal with health care for ourselves and our families? It's a bigger picture.