Quotes About Advocacy

I want people to start thinking about what it means to be HIV-positive and to ask questions about that.

Candidly, I've noticed that throughout my career, whether in offices that are majority male or majority female, the men are quick to advocate for themselves for a higher starting salary or more pay bumps over time.

A lot of people told me I should be quiet about being bisexual and not say anything, but for me this is a part of my identity.

When I see a blatant injustice, I can't keep quiet. I've been that way since I was a little kid.

When you know something in your heart, you better not be quiet about it. You better speak out about it.

There's a lot of things I would definitely go to bat for in Hawaii. I've been all over that stuff. If someone told me to be quiet about that because of my profession, no. That's my people.

One girl was helped from my appearance on the show, and I swore I would not keep quiet again. When you talk about things that are embarrassing or devastating, obviously you can help people when you do.

Many ALS patients end up fading away quietly and dying. For me, this was not OK. I did not want to fade away quietly.

It's always important, when we experience injustice in this nation, that people in power understand that we will not take that injustice quietly.

Walk away from medical professionals who dismiss your concerns, and don't quit searching until you find someone who will truly partner with you to find the answers you deserve.

The USDA is not our ally here. We have to take matters into our own hands, not only by advocating for a better diet for everyone - and that's the hard part - but by improving our own. And that happens to be quite easy. Less meat, less junk, more plants.

I'm aggressive, quite frankly, because Staten Island gets screwed all the time. And if I'm not aggressive, then I won't be successful. That's not being a bad boy. That's doing my job.

I feel comfortable putting my political stances out there without feeling as though I am filling some sort of quota. I don't have a wokeness quota for the day.

I am a longtime, rabid fan of Jonathan Kozol.

Glorious shall be the battle when the time comes to fight for our people and our race.

I want to live to help my race.

I do a lot of races for the cure for breast cancer.

When I stopped racing, I kept being asked to comment on diversity in the sport but I really felt I had done my part.

Not every dollar spent to gain influence on Capitol Hill comes from a big global industrial behemoth. Hundreds of small advocacy groups and nonprofits spend thousands each year to lobby Congress and federal agencies on the issues they care about most, and their efforts often go under the radar.

All of my causes, including the most radical, are motivated by the defense of animals.

I am what would be called a 'mainstream feminist,' not a radical feminist.

Radical feminists are often highly conservative in many areas except for women's rights, and LGBT activists can be the same.

I'm not a criminal or a radical. I'm not 'dangerous.' I'm a human being with opinions and beliefs that I have a right to express.

I had been an activist on the issue of HIV, primarily in the African American and Latino communities here in the U.S. for many years. It was horrifying to me how the pandemic was raging right here in this country but no one was talking about it.