Quotes About Advocacy

Over the years it [the National Committee for Mental Hygiene] has championed for the promotion of 'mental health' despite the fact that nobody knows what it is or how to do it.

Make health care a right, not a privilege.

When I took on the drug companies and the insurance companies for universal health care coverage, they went after me with a vengeance.

Change the way we all talk to each other about our mental health.

People need help to change the way they eat... this is what government is for in my opinion.... We should make food an issue for everyone who runs for office.

If you want to help the poor, don't be poor

Let me tell you right now, you are not alone. Seeking help requires incredible strength and courage. The most powerful weapon you have against bullying is your voice.

When I was 27 years old, I organized legal aid clinics to help low-income seniors. It was a life-altering experience.

The future of history belongs to the poor and exploited.

The awful wrongs and sufferings forced upon the innocent, helpless, faithful animal race form the blackest chapter in the whole world's history.

So much history can be lost if no one tells the story -- so that's what I do. I tell the stories. This is my way of fighting for social change.

The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.

You who have read the history of nations, from Moses down to our last election, where have you ever seen one class looking after the interests of another?

Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!

The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.

I have seen how effective language attached to policies that are mainstream and delivered by people who are passionate and effective can change the course of history.

At this moment in history, we are called to act as if we truly believe that liberty and justice for all is a desirable thing.

Over the years, over the history of our country, liberals have stood on many of the right sides of the issues.

Throughout history, ideas need patrons.

A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids.

It's so worth-while being a judge, because, if I make good, I can help prove that a woman's place is as much on the bench, in City Council, or in Congress, as in the home.

You just have to keep going. I mean I think our job, my job, is to keep articulating that I exist and that there are lots of people like me exist and we just have no home.

There are a lot of homes for boys, but very few for girls, that is why I chose to do for girls.

He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.