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Willie Parker

51 quotes in 176 categories

[Wikipedia] Willie Everett Parker Jr. is an American former professional football player who was a running back for six seasons for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL). After playing college football for the North Carolina Tar Heels, he was signed by the Steelers as an undrafted free a

Quotes by Willie Parker

“The best advocacy is always storytelling.”

Storytelling

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“To the point: A woman who wants to terminate her pregnancy has to make her decision in the context of a culture…

Scientific knowledge

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We can take that as a notion that we don't know exactly what [Trump] is going to do, but we can't afford…

Knows

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“Now I see the Bible as it was written: the inspired word of God, but also a historical document preserving the ancient…

Bible

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“The political conversation about abortion has obliterated truth and crushed any nuanced understanding of what it means to live a human life.…

Abortion rights

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“All that has happened to me fuels the compassion I need to do my work, for in my interactions with the women…

Compassion

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“I see no reason why a woman should feel herself deserving of a separation from God because of a decision she has…

Loving god

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“If a woman is not in control of her fertility, she is not in control of her life.”

Life

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“It bears repeating: one in three American women have had abortions in their lifetime. I have probably done more than ten thousand…

American women

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“The way I see it, the attack on abortion rights is nothing less than an effort to put all women back in…

Abortion rights

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If you're making abortion illegal and undermining the various things that will allow the prevention of that need, it can only be…

Abortion

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There's also really no way of knowing what Donald Trump is going to do - he's been sufficiently vague in his policy…

Knowing

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“It is my personal belief that the abhorrence of abortion expressed by the men who place themselves at the barricades in front…

Faith

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“The women who are matter-of-fact, or stoic, as they undergo this procedure far outnumber those who are anxious or tearful.”

Stoicism

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“vow: I refuse to give in to fear. The truth is that I am more afraid of living a life of cowardice,…

Faith

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“A third of American women have had abortions, but a fraction of them are brave enough to stand up and tell their…

American women

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“The tactics that the antis have used, for decade, have been so explicitly un-Christian (and I’m not just talking about the murder,…

Christian

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“I find that my patients are far more sensible, and far less histrionic, about the realities of this process than their elected…

Patience

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“One of the cultural falsehoods that I most rail against is this: each and every abortion is a terrible tragedy and every…

Every day

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There's a willful ignorance. We indulge people who are willfully misrepresenting the facts. I don't think those [anti-choice] congresspeople are as much…

Agendas

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“The underlining assumption of all the new laws is that women can't be trusted to make their own health decisions;”

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“God is love, and God does not judge, but God’s people can become overly pious and haughty.”

God

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I'm full of clichés - I was raised by a Southern black woman and they had a saying for everything.

Black

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“I am absolutely convinced that everything in my upbringing has prepared me for my abortion work. I say this because I believe…

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“One of the things that infuriates me the most about the abortion wars, as they’re called, is the way that the antis…

War

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