Quotes About Advocacy

I can talk openly about my support for the artists on Communion because I'm not promoting myself.

Everybody is promoting something.

I just figure if you have a modicum of celebrity, you need to use it, and you need to use it for more things than just promoting yourself or your film or your image or your product.

By being present and being true, I believe that, in my own way, I am promoting diversity.

As equalities minister, I am responsible for promoting equality of opportunity for everyone.

I fight for everybody, national and international, no matter where they are. I want to help those athletes. Not only those in the UFC - those that are in the big league and can have a better future - but those in the small promotions and need our help.

All writing is propaganda for the self.

It's easy to complain about the obvious reality that our political media are completely corrupted and engage in propaganda, not journalism. But as they are the largest, most powerful, and least accountable political advocacy group in the country, Americans also need to do more than complain as the press harms the country.

I'm not really sure what gay propaganda is.

Tamir Rice, Tanisha Anderson, Mya Hall, Walter Scott, Sandra Bland - these names are important. They're inherently important, and the space that #BlackLivesMatter held and continues to hold helped propel the conversation around the state-sanctioned violence they experienced.

Far too often animals are put to sleep when they could be saved through proper care and nursing.

I respect women that have a voice and use it for a proper reason.

Artists have to be represented properly and paid properly.

I wouldn't say I'm against same-sex marriage. I believe in freedom and equality for all people. I believe that when it comes to gay marriage, that's a political and legal issue that has to be dealt with in that arena. I have privately held beliefs, but when it comes to that, it's properly placed in the political and legal arena.

For democracy to function properly it requires accepting the absolute right of individuals and groups to campaign against decisions previously taken by majorities and to seek to change them.

Most of what I've proposed in Congress grew out of issues raised with me back here in Connecticut.

My true passion is in the prosecution of criminal cases.

I saw the prospect of serving as labor secretary as a wonderful opportunity to further the policies that I have been fighting for my whole life, and I had to seize it.

I mean to defend the rights of individuals in a liberal prospect.

I have charity work that I do. I started my own charity, the Friends of the Prostate, and I'm also working on awareness of the deviated septum. I do this because not many people are interested in it. There's also Save the Funnel-web - they're dying out.

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

I've always wanted to fight for people who didn't have arms. I've always wanted to speak up for people who don't have a voice. I've always wanted to protect people who couldn't protect themselves. It's my nature. It's my instinct.

We will protect our constitutional right to boycott, divest, and sanctions in this country.

For years all I seemed to be doing was lobbying politicians and others to persuade them that European culture needed movies, and that we had to protect it.