Quotes About Advocacy

The 'life' in 'pro-life' denotes not the quality of life, but life itself.

I am really intense and passionate about the things I believe in and about engaging and improving the quality of life for not only my constituents but everyone.

We have no quarrel with a policy that seeks to support human rights.

I'm not taking jobs anymore where I'm getting paid a quarter of what the male co-star is being paid. I'm not allowing that in my life.

I just want to be a shining leader for the LGBTQIA-plus community. Drag queens have always been the leaders of the community.

There's no union for drag queens.

Equal rights for women and queer folks!

We believe the Queer community is a model for our global extended family, and together we have the power to create positive change for all of humanity.

I think the earnestness of what we're saying and what other bands like us are totally saying - or other queer bands - is 'We exist.'

I would say that I'm a feminist theorist before I'm a queer theorist or a gay and lesbian theorist.

As a white queer person of a certain degree of economic privilege, I think that my ability to pass as straight is a privilege that other folk I know don't have. It's important to keep in mind who really is in the most trouble and to direct our attention to assisting those people.

I take the time to show up for people in my field who are often not seen and heard in the same capacity as I am. Applauding other women and queer writers of color enables me to recognize and showcase the abundance of talent and work being created.

My favorite job, and definitely the one that means the most to me, is 'Queer Eye.'

We need to continue to build and support queer and trans communities and end the profiling and criminalization that so many face.

I won't do press anymore unless I can talk about the homophobia and let queer people know our ideas are mainstream.

Encourage your friend and family member who are queer parents of color to post their stories and share it with the world. It's time for us to be seen.

To see queer people keeping each other down makes me so sad because I've been around for a long time - I've seen the people who came before us fight for what we have right now, and they did not fight like that for us to go backwards.

I want to see some queer politicians, some drag queens and drag kings running for office and shifting the way that policy is made as well.

I believe an authentic Judaism would legislate total equality for queer people.

The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons? And I hardly believe any of our opponents will have the hardihood to say they are not.

If a rider is concerned about questionable practices, it's his duty to speak up for the good of others.

There are issues that are being questioned that are fundamentally upsetting to me, deeply: immigration, funding for the arts, Planned Parenthood, and women's rights. These are just issues that are very close to my heart, and I use my own private voice and funds to fight for them and in support of them.

There are some great questions to ask your doctor. If he says 'no,' then you find yourself a different doctor. There really has to be a change in how we medically look at women at this time. I mean, this is not just baby gloom.

One of the most fundamental questions people have about defense attorneys is, 'How can you do that? How can you go to bat everyday for a person that you may not know is guilty but you have a pretty good idea that he's not so innocent?' It's a question that defense attorneys answer for themselves by not addressing.