Quotes About Advocacy

My nephew has type 1 diabetes, and it's my goal and hope that in his lifetime there will be a cure for diabetes. There's no place better to give the money to than the Juvenile Diabetes Association.

It takes no compromising to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no survey to remove repressions.

I'll occasionally go and do an honor like the Mexican-American Legal Defense Fund because it raises money for a very worthy organization.

I have to march because my mother could not have an abortion.

If, while I hear the wild shriek of the slave mother robbed of her little ones, I do not open my mouth, am I not guilty?

What's important for my daughter to know is that... if you are fortunate to have opportunity, it is your duty to make sure other people have those opportunities as well.

I'm a medical doctor by training. I'm a physician, not a politician. And I'm in this as a mother on fire.

No mother in the world wants her daughter to have fewer rights than she did...

I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike.

I believe strongly in the rights of women... my mother is a woman, my sister is a woman, my daughter is a woman, my wife is a woman.

I spent most of my adult life as someone's mother and the rest of my life trying to make sure that children are safe. So this to me is - we wrote Hell Is For Children in 1979.

My mother, for the last 20 years anyway, would not call herself a Marxist but a human rights activist.

I get crazy upset when I feel mothers or babies are not getting the loving care they need.

advocating women's rights and greater opportunity for women in the workplace and in every avenue of public life is inconsistent with an insistence on mother taking care of children and housework.

Good things don't come to those who wait. They come to those who agitate!

The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.

It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.

To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.

Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.

The conservationist¹s most important task, if we are to save the Earth, is to educate.

And there are people that will stand in your corner and convince you to stand up for another round no matter what.

I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.

There's a lot of injustice in the world and it's what I sing about in my music and what I try to confront in my life as an activist.

You know, if Michael Jordan can scream at the refs, me as Kanye West, as the Michael Jordan of music, can go and say, 'This is wrong.'