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Quotes About Advocacy

Even though I'm not running anymore, we still have to try to find a cure for cancer. Other people should go ahead and try to do their own thing now.
~ Terry Fox
We will stand up for what is right, for what is fair and what is just. Health care is a right and not a privilege.
~ John Lewis
Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all.
~ Bill Clinton
Remember our proud history of social justice, universal health care, public pensions and making sure no one is left behind. Let's continue to move forward.
~ Jack Layton
I want to take human rights out of their box. I want to show the relevance of the universal principles of human rights to the basic needs of health, security, education and equality.
~ Mary Robinson
Health insurance needs to be affordable and available for everyone, not just the wealthy. I will always fight to improve the access, level of care, and affordability of health care.
~ Alma Adams
Mental health is often missing from public health debates even though it's critical to wellbeing.
~ Diane Abbott
It is my aspiration that health finally will be seen not as a blessing to be wished for, but as a human right to be fought for.
~ Kofi Annan
I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.
~ Gail Porter
Everything hinges on education. Without it, you can't advocate for proper health care, for housing, for a civil rights bill that ensures your rights.
~ Susan L. Taylor
It's important for people of color to link up with issues around globalization, food security, health, the environment.
~ Danny Glover
We would be foolish and silly not to unite with people in the public health sector, the environmental community, [and] unions, to try to challenge corporate agriculture.
~ Wayne Pacelle
Maybe I'm a dreamer, but I wish mental health care was as easy to get as, say, a gun.
~ Andy Borowitz
I mean, the fight for a health care bill to cover all Americans and leave none behind is attacked as being a race appeal, which is not true, but then it's put out in the media as true.
~ Jesse Jackson
Im committed to universal health coverage and education.
~ Carol Moseley Braun
Health makes good propaganda.
~ Naomi Wolf
The most underutilized resource in all of health care is the patient.
~ Dave deBronkart
I only wish my health issues to be open to the public in the hope that I can educate others.
~ Renee Sloan
We're going to have a very, very robust, level of performance having to do with mental health. We are losing so many great people that can be taken care of if they have proper care.
~ Donald Trump
I have a very strong opinions about health and our responsibility to our own health, and I will always say what I feel.
~ Melissa Etheridge
Unfortunately, we are still in an age where individuals may be discriminated against because of health conditions.
~ Lois Capps
I believe health care is a civil right.
~ Dennis Kucinich
All I can say on women's issues and women's health issues, there will be nobody better than Donald Trump.
~ Donald Trump
I will help women, because we have the women's health problems. We have a lot of problems.
~ Donald Trump