Quotes about Advocacy

I believe the church of Jesus Christ should be first in line to champion the empowerment of women and girls throughout the world to become contributing members in their societies.

There's fire in you, Julie. I can see you out there in the street, carrying a banner for all the underprivileged people of the world.

Going to meetings for Time's Up has been deeply affirming for me.

I realized quickly what Mandela and Tambo meant to ordinary Africans. It was a place where they could come and find a sympathetic ear and a competent ally, a place where they would not be either turned away or cheated, a place where they might actually feel proud to be represented by men of their own skin color.

I believe in the universality of freedom and therefore want to be involved in the freedom movement.

It's time for fathers to war for their kids more than the culture wars for your kids.

If you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else.

Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.

God Almighty has set before me two great objects: the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners.

If the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is to live, our babies must live. Our mothers must choose life. If we refuse to answer the cry of mercy from the unborn, and ignore the suffering of the mothers, then we are signing our own death warrants.

Then they came for me - and there was no one left to speak out for me.

Then they came for me - and there was no one left to speak out for me.