Quotes About Advocacy

A woman is still beaten every nine seconds in this country, but thanks to the heroic feminist campaigns of the 1970s and 1980s, she now has access to legal remedies that occasionally work, occasionally protect her, and—even more occasionally—send her abuser to jail.

I know I am in danger of being misunderstood by those people, all too numerous, who cannot distinguish a statement of belief in what is the case from an advocacy of what ought to be the case.

I am saying how things have evolved. I am not saying how we humans morally ought to behave. I stress this, because I know I am in danger of being misunderstood by those people, all too numerous, who cannot distinguish a statement of belief in what is the case from an advocacy of what ought to be the case.

We do not demonstrate against anything. Our group is about being for something, never against. No antis except on my family tree.

OK, then, well, are you a feminist?' She smiled at me. 'Naturally – I am a woman.

But then, if you forget what's bad, cruel, unjust, you might not care anymore about setting things to rights. You might stop standing up against the folk who do evil deeds. And someone's got to.

If you forget what's bad, cruel, unjust, you might not care anymore about setting things to rights. You might stop standing up against the folk who do evil deeds. And someone's got to.

The emancipation of women was a project dear to the Prophet's heart

A nonhuman animal had better have a good lawyer. In 1508, Bartholomé Chassenée earned fame and fortune for his eloquent representation of the rats of his French province. These rats had been charged with destroying the barley crop and also with ignoring the court order to appear and defend themselves. Bartholomé Chassenée argued successfully that the rats hadn't come because the court had failed to provide reasonable protection from the village cats along the route.

Violence never worked in the service of women.

I will take care of animals. I will have justice. I

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They cannot represent themselves; they must be represented.

Lily was a Fabian, a society suffragette who risked nothing for her beliefs.

You can't vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man.

And if you cannot remain indifferent, you must resolve to throw your weight into that balance in which the fate and condition of man is weighed.

I've always been a true believer that if men had babies, nobody would be trying to tell them what they can and can't do with their bodies.

The most important thing my father taught me is that every man has to stand up for his rights.

If the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights,then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights.

Everybody's got rights. A man tied to a bed got rights. A man down in a dungeon got rights. A little screaming baby got rights. Yeah, you got rights. What you don't got is power.

Well, it's hard for a mere man to believe that woman doesn't have equal rights.

I am a small man who wants to do big things for small people.

All men should be feminists. If men cared about women's rights, the world would be a better place

It's been the same story ever since I can remember, ever since Wilson - the Republicans don't do a thing for the little man.