Quotes about Advocacy

It's time for women to stop being politely angry.

Transgender discrimination is the civil rights issue of our time

Jesus said that whatever you did to the least of his people, you did to him, and the lifers in penitentiaries are the leastest people in this country. Just look to see whose budgets are being cut these days -- the old, the crazies, the children in Head Start -- and that's where Jesus will be.

Your best customers become your new salespeople.

It's not enough to find a niche that shares a worldview. That niche has to be ready and able to influence a large group of their friends.

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

I consider myself an activist who governs.

Young people across the country have grown up traumatized by the gun violence epidemic.

If black lives matter, then why is it that black women are more than five times as likely as a white woman to have an abortion? I think the womb that brings forth the black life should matter... Because black lives absolutely matter, what about the babies in that womb? What about that mama?

It would be great to do a story and get somebody who is innocent out of jail. That's a wonderful thing.

There is a great stir about colored men getting their rights, but not a word about the colored women; and if colored men get their rights, and not colored women theirs, you see, the colored men will be masters over the women, and it will be just as bad as it was before.

An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere.