Quotes About Advocacy

'Glee' is one of the very few mainstream outlets that is giving a voice to communities of people that don't necessarily have a loud voice, specifically the gay community. It gives a really positive and forward statement.

And when Mother Teresa was asked why she didn't participate in anti-war demonstrations, she said, "I will never do that, but as soon as you have a pro-peace rally, I'll be there." These great leaders knew that to be against something—to focus on your opposition to it—just creates more of it.

Our recent history should have made one thing clear. Women's rights are human rights. Any foreign policy that fails to recognize this effectively dehumanizes half the human race.

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

It takes leadership to improve safety. And I started off the movement in my time, but the person who has done more over the past 20 to 30 years and who has led it is Professor Sid Watkins.

Douglass went on forcefully for an hour. "We Negroes love our country. We fought for it. We ask only that we be treated as well as those who fought against it." The crowd roared its approval.

Your friend is wrongly accused!

Once you can express yourself, you can tell the world what you want from it. . . All the changes in the world, for good or evil, were first brought about by words.

Once you can express yourself, you can tell the world what you want from it.

once you can express yourself, you can tell the world what you want from it... all the changes, good or evil, were first brought about by words.

This is the way brown people have to fight, my grandfather says. You can't just put your fist up. You have to insist on something gently. Walk toward a thing slowly. But be ready to die, my grandfather says, for what is right. Be ready to die, my grandfather says, for everything you believe in.

interviewer - would you have defended adolf hitler? jacques verges - hell, i'd have even defended bush, as long as he pleads guilty!

The only reason to sign [petitions] is to assuage the conscience of the signatory.

Entonces el derecho a la educación no sirve, Pati

Encourage the women in your life—your friends, sisters, mothers, daughters—to insist on dignity and respect, to have faith in themselves, to be proud. Expect boys and men to be respectful, kind, and responsible, and don't settle for less.

If you are aware of chronic or severe mistreatment and do not speak out against it, your silence communicates implicitly that you see nothing unacceptable taking place.

In reality, to remain neutral is to collude with the abusive man, whether or not that is your goal. If you are aware of chronic or severe mistreatment and do not speak out against it, your silence communicates implicitly that you see nothing unacceptable taking place.

The deaf community is hungry to see itself in the most positive way.

Woman stock is rising in the market. I shall not live to see women vote, but I'll come and rap at the ballot box.

A man without a vote is man without protection.

I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women.

We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. We have talked for a hundred years or more. It is time now to write the next chapter—and to write in the books of law.

We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. ... It is time now to write the next chapter-and to write it in the books of law.

I'm not a leftist; I'm where the righteous ought to be.