Quotes about Advocacy

There is no one to plead your cause, no remedy for your sores, no recovery for you.

And there was a widow in that town who kept appealing to him, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’

yet because this widow keeps pestering me, I will give her justice. Then she will stop wearing me out with her perpetual requests.’”

The function of freedom is to free someone else.

We are here to advance the cause of women and to advance the cause of democracy and to make it absolutely clear that the two are inseparable. There cannot be true democracy unless women's voices are heard. There cannot be true democracy unless women are given the opportunity to take responsibility for their own lives.

Work on what you support rather than fighting what you oppose.

If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.

I abide where there is a fight against wrong.

I was not an activist.

What I get a bit angry about is the image of women.

If our church is not marked by caring for the poor, the oppressed, the hungry, we are guilty of heresy.

The notion that we have even one single veteran living on the streets should be just considered a travesty to all of us.