Quotes About Advocacy

Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the struggle for equal rights.

Humanity is outraged in me and with me.

Anywhere where the humanity of people is undermined, anywhere where people are left in the dust, there we will find our cause.

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

A WOMAN'S PLACE IS IN THE HOUSE...AND THE SENATE.

Absolutely. Justice served with a side of pineapple. That's what I'm here for.

If you are not working to protect hunting, then you are working to destroy it.

I decline to go fox hunting (nor did she want her sons William and Harry to be involved in hunting).

Once we get three more directors elected, the Sierra Club will no longer be pro-hunting and pro-trapping and we can use the resources of the $95-million-a-year budget to address some of these issues.

We have to devise means of making known the facts in such a way as to touch the imagination of the world

It's because I'm a feminist that I can't stand women limiting other women's imaginations. It really makes me angry.

Let it not be said that I was silent when they needed me.

If to be feelingly alive to the sufferings of my fellow-creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever permitted to be at large.

The function of freedom is to free someone else.

We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.

Human rights are not things that are put on the table for people to enjoy. These are things you fight for and then you protect.

You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about.

As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.

If women lose the right to say where and how they birth their children, then they will have lost something that's as dear to life as breathing.

Remember the dignity of your womanhood. Do not appeal, do not beg, do not grovel. Take courage, join hands, stand besides us, fight with us.

Don't just get involved. Fight for your seat at the table. Better yet, fight for a seat at the head of the table.

Make a difference about something other than yourselves.

Your voice can change the world.

We cannot rely upon the silenced to tell us they are suffering.