Quotes About Advocacy

sex trafficking and mass rape should no more be seen as women's issues than slavery was a black issue or the Holocaust was a Jewish issue.

The equivalent of five jumbo jets' worth of women die in labor each day, but the issue is almost never covered. The remedy? America should lead a global campaign to save mothers in childbirth. Right now the amount we Americans spend on maternal health is equivalent to less than one twentieth of 1 percent of the amount we spend on our military.

If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention

The unfortunate reality is that women's issues are marginalized, and in any case sex trafficking and mass rape should no more be seen as women's issues than slavery was a black issue or the Holocaust was a Jewish issue. These are all humanitarian concerns, transcending any one race, gender, or creed.

the single most important way to encourage women and girls to stand up for their rights is education, and we can do far more to promote universal education in poor countries.

Would the world stand by if it were men who were dying just for completing their reproductive functions? —ASHA-ROSE MIGIRO, UN DEPUTY SECRETARY GENERAL, 2007

In the nineteenth century, the central moral challenge was slavery. In the twentieth century, it was the battle against totalitarianism. We believe that in this century the paramount moral challenge will be the struggle for gender equality in the developing world.

The best role for Americans who want to help Muslim women isn't holding the microphone at the front of the rally but writing the checks and carrying the bags in the back.

was given as a first-world citizen, and I believe it is my responsibility to work so that these opportunities are available to all.

We believe an international women's movement needs to focus less on holding conventions or lobbying for new laws, and more time in places like rural Zimbabwe, listening to communities and helping them get their girls into school.

four appalling realities of daily life: maternal mortality, human trafficking

I went back to the women and said, 'Tell me exactly what you want us to do.' And they said, 'Don't do anything for us, do something for our children'.

often think that if men realised how much time you spend as a woman pleading with men – pleading with them to stop doing what they're doing, or pleading with them to let you do whatever needs to be done – they'd understand a lot more about what our lives are like.

anonymous blogger can print a leaked document or run a denunciation of an abuse of power. But if the abuse is to be tackled, then the blogger or the people who have read his or her work must go out and campaign for change in public.

Today's supporters of religious censorship claim that they are different. They say they are not advocating censorship because they believe we must bow down before Church and state, but because we must respect different cultures and say nothing that might offend them.

Ex-governor Walter Hickel, decrying the interference of wolf advocates (many of them Outsiders) in the issue two decades ago, put it best, with this unintentionally comical, landmark statement: "You can't just let nature run wild.

Bernie Ecclestone's comment that 'If you don't have a seat at the table, you're probably on the menu.

Your mother has built you a place where you can speak your word openly. Now she asks you to use that for her, and for yourself of course.

I always ask for as much as I can get. It's a matter of principle.

From sympathizers viewing Sacco and Vanzetti as victims, it was only a short step to viewing them as martyrs. To their partisans they exemplified all that was admirable—innocence, virtue, and idealism—while the forces arrayed against them embodied all that was intrinsically evil: bigotry, hypocrisy, and reaction.

Supporters of the two men believed they were victims of a deeply ingrained prejudice against immigrants and radicals.

Wij moeten leren om partijdig te zijn zonder onrechtvaardig te zijn.

Sólo de causas perdidas se puede ser partidario irrestricto.

Violence against women is an appalling human rights violation. But it is not inevitable. We can put a stop to this.