Quotes About Advocacy

And I've tried to give us a higher profile. Typically, at a board meeting, we'd pass resolutions about the civil-rights issue of the day, but we'd never tell anyone. So I've instituted a policy of announcing our resolutions at the end of our meetings.

Ironically, if you look at Dianne Feinstein's profile and you look at my profile, I'm the 99 percent. Dianne Feinstein's the one percent. She appeals to one percent.

I know what to say, how to say it, how to bring profile to the issues I care about and people want to listen to me.

I am working to ensure major corporations stop putting profits ahead of the health and safety of our Kentucky families.

I decided to make a lifetime commitment against social injustices, against inequalities, and that is why I am profoundly from the Left.

We support President Truman's civil rights program.

When I started acting, I thought everything should be issue-based and that there should be a helpline at the end of every program.

Well, if you look at the programme that we're offering, I think that is a future which is fair for women as well as men. We're still heavily outnumbered - we're still four to one in parliament - but we are pioneers! We are forging a new path.

You don't have to be a nerd or a programmer or a network engineer to make a difference.

There are 2 to 3 million women programmers in the world. We need to see them more.

I call for greater measures to involve more women at higher levels in mine action. Governments should do more to address gender in their mine action programmes and through their implementation of the Anti-personnel Mine Ban Convention.

I have always advocated for funding and programs that increase our productivity and competitiveness.

We need a grassroots movement and government policies and programs to change the food landscape and the built environment to give our children a chance to have happy, healthy successful lives.

The lesson is the same as it always has been to the HIV/AIDS community: embrace and celebrate the progress while not letting up the pressure until there is a cure.

If you're a progressive, you really should be a feminist because it's about equality, it's about respect, it's about making the best of the world that we have.

Progressive leaders always try to take action on the forward edge of that movement, movement toward greater respect for the equal rights of all.

I'm a Democrat, and I think people who meet me will realize I'm a Democrat. I have progressive Democratic values.

I'm ready to fight, and I'm ready to make sure progressive includes progress.

It's not enough just to elect people of color and women of color and progressives. We need to make sure that they have a work plan and that they are - continue to align with the communities that helped get them to where they're at.

The Fairness Project is endeavoring to try to do what we can to make a fairer society.

There are many outsiders that actively try to halt every natural resource development project in Alaska. Many of these same people have never even been to Alaska, yet they claim to know what's best for us.

And that's the mission of The Innocence Project in New York, is to exonerate people who have been wrongfully convicted, and also work from a policy angle with Congress and state legislatures to prevent future wrongful convictions.

Sometimes, being a feminist artist, there are times where I'm in a position where I just want to feel like I'm saying all the right things politically, or I feel like I have to mention my own project over other people's projects. But I don't do that anymore. I just want to be off the cuff and honest.

I can do an hour-long speech about Democrats taking African Americans for granted, and I'd have a line behind me of very prominent African-Americans who would say, 'Amen.'