Advocacy Quotes

It`s okay to talk about birth, okay - then menstruation. I first started my advocacy for women`s health in the field of reproductive freedom, and the next stage would be bringing menopause out of the closet.

Programs like SPIN provide an important opportunity for students with mobility impairments to offer each other peer support. These programs can also be important vehicles for advocacy.

We disclose our funding, Common Cause does not. So it`s rather ironic that we would be attacked on that basis. But at the end of the day, just because Common Cause doesn`t agree with the way we seek grant funding, that doesn`t make advocacy illegitimate. Nor does it make theirs legitimate, their attack legitimate.

There`s a district policy that requires teachers to ensure that for all topics, particularly controversial topics, both sides are presented, ... There`s not an advocacy role to be played by the teachers in an instructional program.

If I were a student taking this class, I would get the impression that the most important people in the history of this nation were convinced, unequivocally, that it was founded by Christians, for Christians. That seems like advocacy to me.

The large number of safety studies indicates that this issue has received a great amount of attention. Unfortunately, many of these studies involve more advocacy than science. It`s not that these studies aren`t valuable, but they have problems with methodology, statistical analysis and even simple understanding of important terms, such as `speeding.` In accident data, speeding is defined as both `traveling faster than the posted limit` and `traveling too fast for conditions.` Studies often do not differentiate between these definitions.