Quotes About Advocacy

It is good that the Canadians are raising the flag among Western countries to raise the issue of human rights abuse throughout the Middle East.

More than my political affiliation, I consider myself a hellraising humanitarian. Hell raising in the sense that I don't just go along to get along.

I'm committed to raising teacher pay and will fight to make significant progress every year until we get there.

My mom pushed me in a baby carriage at Martin Luther King rallies. My grandfather was a union organizer. And to me, there is no room - no room - for discrimination of any kind. To me, it's just an anathema.

Communicating a passionate response to world events is no longer limited to protests and rallies.

Rallies, marches on Washington, protests, et al. are pointless if there is no action to make them mean something.

It is important to show up. Showing up at marches and rallies and town halls and protests.

I have addressed public meetings. I have done rallies and road shows. I have gone door-to-door for leaders like Kapil Sibal ji.

My father acted as the Illinois Branch president of the NAACP and so we spent a lot of time in the marches and the rallies working on behalf of people of color.

I'm going to be the kind of congressperson where I'm going to be at rallies with the people, fighting for justice and being present and showing them that they have a fighter and a champion in Congress with them and for them.

With Hurricane Katrina and all that kind of stuff happening, you needed somebody to rally for your city, to tell that story. Since Hurricane Katrina, we didn't really have nobody that said, 'I'm gonna tell New Orleans' story, and I'm gonna stick to New Orleans.'

I was pulled out of school for every moratorium day and every rally for a left-wing candidate... from Ed Koch in his heyday to Eugene McCarthy. That's the culture that I came from.

Being in service and being involved in something that is greater than you is what makes a person complete and whole. The very first thing I ever did in terms of activism was for an anti-atom bomb rally.

I'm a proponent of single-payer health-care, public education, protecting the environment - all the things Democrats rally around.

I demonstrated through my work that I can rally other people to support legislation and get it passed.

I've never missed a rally for my dad.

People can't go into the street endlessly. My friends get asked why aren't they going to the next protest? They answer, 'Because we're tired of being thousands. I'm ready to become the 100,000th person at a rally, but I don't want to be the 10,000th. Because it's pointless.'

'Never again' is the rallying cry for all who believe that mankind must speak out against genocide.

I consider myself a rampant feminist.

When I first ran for mayor in 2005, I made a pledge to confront the epidemic of gun violence in Braddock.

I ran for Congress to give Kansans a real voice in Washington, D.C. - not to let our priorities be drowned out by special interests.

I put my name out there and ran for public service because I want more inclusion, diversity, and opportunity... I will fight for those values.

I like what Don Imus has done through the years to help kids with cancer at the Imus Ranch. He has raised awareness about autism. He has done any number of good things.

It's not just Porter Ranch. There's communities like Chatsworth. There's communities like Northridge. There's communities like Granada Hills - and a lot of them are writing to me.