Quotes About Advocacy

Keep fighting for animals by making compassionate, cruelty-free choices every day and encouraging those around you to do the same.

There is no force more liberating than the knowledge that you are fighting for others.

If you're going to be a fighter, and you're going to fight for the future of this country and lead the Democratic Party, then you can't be ducking fights.

They say Kejriwal fights a lot. Yes I do, but not for my wife or children. I fight for your rights. So you tell me, should I fight or not?

Saying 'black lives matter' both literally and figuratively restores people's dignity.

Get things right for disabled people and you get it right for all, for the whole of society. Not just figuratively, but in reality.

We figured out as a community of gay people, we have to take care of our own.

I keep trying to imagine a universe in which too many public figures declaring themselves feminists would be a bad thing.

It's about being a voice in the community. There's so many ways to be a voice, and that's what I'm figuring out.

Women in Film and Television is such an important body.

We have to learn to be allies to each other. We are in a deficit of financial and social capital, and TransTech aims to help trans people reverse that.

If somebody does something wrong to someone around me, I can be firm. But that's always to protect someone to whom wrong is being done to.

When it comes to public services, I am firmly on the side of the public.

That's why I created Smart Girl Club in the first place because I really wanted to combat the non-inclusion that I felt in a lot of places.

First thing is first and let me be clear: I stand with the Black community. Black Lives Matter. There is no room in this world for racism. Period.

I am prepared to do whatever I can do and whatever is reasonable to make sure that it is Hillary who makes it to the White House and not Trump.

I was arrested twice in demonstrations in front of the Obama White House in the push for DACA.

They were totally uplifting my work and gave me a platform, and now I have an ongoing relationship with the White House. We're working on some very, very, very big things for the trans community.

It was important for me to join the White House because as I looked around Trump's inner circle and campaign, there were not a lot of African-Americans, particularly African-American women, uniquely positioned to serve as a member of the senior staff, to serve as an assistant to the president.

Am I a Democrat? Yes, I'm a Democrat. But at the end of the day, when I take the oath as a senator it won't be to do the bidding of the Democratic Party or a president in the White House. I will be there to fight for the people of South Carolina.

I'm working as hard as I can to get a rescue dog into the White House. It'd be a dream.

Folks here in South Carolina want someone with a backbone, with a spine. Someone who's going to stand up for them and their families, regardless of who's in the White House.

I introduced the FREED Vets Act to make student debt forgiveness for disabled veterans automatic, both now and in the future, regardless of who is in the White House.

When we talk about feminism - equality without apology for all - we can't be talking about for all white women or all highly educated women but all women, regardless of color, class, creed, sexual orientation or identity.