Quotes About Advocacy

I'm sure I am impatient sometimes. I sure do get angry sometimes. I think it's outrageous how hard it is to get this country to feed its children and to take care of its children, to give them a decent education.

If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans.

A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future.

Unless children have strong education and strong families and strong communities and decent housing, it's not enough to go sit in at a lunch counter.

There are some great questions to ask your doctor. If he says 'no ' then you find yourself a different doctor. There really has to be a change in how we medically look at women at this time. I mean, this is not just baby gloom.

Those that have lost their lives to suicide were good people, who were in deep, deep pain. Keep speaking about mental illness and keep it out of the darkness.

Hunger is not debatable.

I never get tired of talking about food. I do getting tired of fighting governments when they are so clearly not putting the best interest of the children forward.

Pigs may not be as cuddly as kittens or puppies, but they suffer just as much.

I will go to the NAACP convention, and explain to the African-American community why they should demand paychecks instead of food stamps.

They are nonhuman persons. They are not food. If animals matter morally at all, there is one and only one rational response: go vegan. Everything else is just participation in animal exploitation.

I plan to write more songs of my own, especially on behalf of the animals we needlessly raise for food, at their great expense, and at great expense to our precious, deteriorating planet.

We woman suffragists have a great mission - the greatest mission the world has ever known. It is to free half the human race, and through that freedom to save the rest.

Those who today still feel a sense of impotence can do something: they can support Amnesty International. They can help it to stand up for freedom and justice.

We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.

People will never fight for your freedom if you have not given evidence that you are prepared to fight for it yourself.

I am a victim-oriented person. I like to see that the victims know that they have a voice.

When the rights of any individual or group are chipped away, the freedom of all erodes.

If I can sit down for freedom, you can stand up for children.

No freedom til we're equal...damn right I support it.

In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

I have not contended for Democrat, Republican, Protestant or Baptist for an agent. I have worked for freedom, I have laboured to give my race a voice in the affairs of the nation.

My continued incarceration has served some good purposes. My defense committee has served as a training ground for other organizers in their defense of freedom and justice.