Quotes About Advocacy

Our team, in general, is in a position where people look up to us, and kids look up to us. I embrace that, and I think I have a huge LGBT following. I think it's pretty cool, the opportunity that I have, especially in sports. There's really not that many out athletes. It's important to be out and to live my life that way.

As footballers we have a certain responsibility. We have the responsibility to talk about things.

I will be O.K. without football. I want to fight for the people who won't be O.K.

I want to work for the people of Bengal.

I want to do things for the people of this country.

The People's Party, I am working for the people and we want to put the power back in people.

I have seen Bernie deliver for the people that need him, no matter who the people were. And always, he does what is right.

All the issues the Shiv Sena took up were for the people.

It's not just lip service when I say I'm going to fight for the people. I've done that as a citizen already.

Our firefighters, they show up every day to fight fires. If, God forbid, there's a situation where they have to fight cancer, they shouldn't have to fight bureaucrats to get the care they deserve.

One girl subjected to FGM or forces to marry is one girl too many.

We like to be kind of at the forefront for how all football federations should treat their female athletes.

When you talk about domestic violence, it's not just athletes that are involved in it. Our society has really done a poor job of addressing it. And it needs to come to the forefront.

I'm a black woman, so I'm obviously not going to write something where women aren't at the forefront.

The foreign policy community in Washington has been arguing that America must put our values at the head of our foreign policy once again - and I couldn't agree more, so let's start by leading on women.

I'm an actor first and foremost. But I've also started an organization, Broadway Impact, that advocates for marriage equality. I'm an actorvist.

The women of Afghanistan have a voice, and it needs to be heard and not forgotten.

Censorship in all its forms must be challenged.

One person can make a difference, even if it takes forty years.

I have fought my own battle with depression, and it was important for me to bring a little awareness about it for others.

I believe in myself and the justice I've fought for all my life.

I've always fought any form of censorship.

I fought for peace in the fifties.

When I became political and Communist, it was because they were the only people I had ever met who fought the color bar in their lives.