Quotes About Advocacy

While I am a single-issue voter, I certainly don't live a single-issue existence. Many causes affect my family and me, and I intend to be a voice for those as well.

In the political world, the only position I have is voter. I'm not a spokesman for anything.

I'm going to continue to do the work we're doing on voter suppression, supporting the work that's being done by Fair Count, ensuring a fair Census count.

As an organizer in the most underrepresented communities in my state, I have felt the frustration that so many voters must feel when other states limit polling locations, require photo IDs, and put unnecessary barriers in front of voters.

At the end of the day, one of the most politically active voters in the country, seniors, will know who stood with them and who didn't.

Advocacy groups and voters are not wrong to push candidates to declare their position clearly on policy issues. That is good citizenship. Hard questions should be asked of every candidate, every politician. And those public servants should be prepared to answer, but in their own words.

My own electorate, which I represented for 36 years as an anti-apartheid politician, had a considerable number of Jewish voters supporting me throughout my career.

I have on many occasions spoken my mind from stage. I have offered organizations table space by the merch booth. I have donated a dollar-a-ticket, or the entire guarantee, to different causes. I have registered voters. I have played on behalf of political candidates.

In Washington, I am a leader on the issues that matter to my community, and I think that's what my constituents want, and also I think that's what voters want. Someone who understands them, who wants to represent them, and who works tirelessly every day on behalf of their interests and their values.

What the voters want to know is who is going to get out there, fight for them, and deal with the income gap that exists in the nation today.

You've got to get out and talk to voters, and you've got to let them know who you are. Talk with them, listen to them, and let them know how you're going to fight for them.

We need candidates who are able to reach out to young voters, women voters.

Voters will never wonder where I stand on an issue or if I will be there when needed. I will be side by side with them as we fight back against the Trump agenda together.

No student should feel like there isn't a way to seek justice, and no student should feel that the scales are tipped against him or her.

Much of my adult life has been spent fighting for equal opportunity, and the idea that I would support limiting opportunity for any segment of society, particularly women, is antithetical to who I am and what I have done.

I am proud to be a woman in the Senate.

I have never left another senator out to dry. Never.

I'm trying to be an activist, and I think of that as separate from my work as an artist. But it isn't.

I have spent 40 years both as a doctor and public servant putting people first.

I've always been interested in political service and community advocacy.

We believe that when there is a democratic setup, we have a greater voice.

Everyone has been discriminated against or harassed - sexism is real.

When we see sexist and racist behavior, the only way to change that is also to point it out and make it clear that it's not okay.

I would never do a sexist script.