Quotes about Advocacy

I will defend Planned Parenthood. I will defend Roe v. Wade, and I will defend women's rights to make their own health care decisions.

There has never been more at stake for women's health and rights.

I believe abortion should be safe, legal, and rare. I do think women should have a choice but also that women should be making responsible decisions.

I wish we weren't fighting all the time to protect women's rights, to protect women's health.

I want women to get paid more. I want to teach them to negotiate so they get paid more.

The measure of any society is how it treats its women and girls.

The important thing to note is that it is not important whether Malala was shot or not - Malala is not asking for personal favors or support. She is asking for support with girls' education and women's rights. So don't support Malala, support her campaign for girls' education and women's rights.

The point, Squire, is that where they used to be confined to State institutions or to the mudrooms and attics of remote country houses they are now abroad everywhere. The government pays them to travel. To procreate, for that matter. I've seen entire families here that can best be explained as hallucinations. Hordes of drooling dolts lurching through the streets. Their inane gibbering. And of course no folly so deranged or pernicious as to escape their advocacy.

Stand up for the Crazy and Stupid

This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labour to others

How do we get people to heed the dire warnings of the people on the ground who have been fighting this danger for so long? How do we get them to take action?

If you want peace, work for justice. If you want justice, defend life. If you want life, embrace truth.