Quotes About Advocacy

I realized there are no lobbyists for critical thinking, and I realized there are no lobbyists for bravery.

I want to be part of a different kind of celebrity, one that thinks not just about charity but policy.

Planned Parenthood has consistently claimed to 'care' for women 'no matter what' and champion 'women's rights' - yet they frantically silence any woman who thinks women deserve better than Planned Parenthood.

I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks.

As a prominent trans person, you hope that someone feels they know you and then thinks of you at the polls; you hope to impact the way they act when they encounter a trans person in real life.

Everybody thinks people who promote PETA don't eat meat, but I think animals were made to be eaten.

You know what the problem that animal activists sometimes have? They only concentrate on the heartbreaking things to the point where the general public thinks, 'Oh, here comes those animal folks again and I'm going to hear all the things I don't want to hear.'

In fact when Sweet Honey was ten years old it was too big for me to run, and I knew it, but I ran it for another thirteen years because I couldn't convince other people to really do it. And this year, I'm not running it.

I grew up in a refugee camp. Thirty years. This so-called human-rights world didn't ask me what was happening for me to be there 30 years.

Anyone who faces any kind of harassment should complain immediately so that a thorough investigation can happen.

It's important to stand up to all forms of bullying, and it's even more important for those who are around you to be just as courageous and stand with you!

As I have always said, those closest to the pain should be closest to the power.

Seven hundred thousand people who have dementia in this country are not heard. I'm fortunate; I can be heard. Regrettably, it's amazing how people listen if you stand up in public and give away $1 million for research into the disease, as I have done.

We need not only one Cesar Chavez; we need a thousand Cesar Chavezes.

Surely these women won't lose any more of their beauty and charm by putting a ballot in a ballot box once a year than they are likely to lose standing in foundries or laundries all year round. There is no harder contest than the contest for bread, let me tell you that.

My hope is that gays will be running the world, because then there would be no war. Just a greater emphasis on military apparel.

COMMUNISM When I give food to the poor they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food they call me a communist. Helder Camara

I wish that there were more stringent laws to make guns sold anywhere that they're legal harder to get.

If we do not get No Child Left Behind right for Limited English Proficient students, the law will be a failure for most schools in the 15th Congressional District, and for many across the nation.

In the hands of a Magnum photographer, the camera is not just an objective eye, but an instrument to enlighten and inform, a stimulating force to influence opinion and sometimes to speak for those with no voice.

The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good.

You do not see deviantly gendered people walking around with Nalgene bottles, getting our sixty-four recommended ounces as we go through our days. I am sure that somewhere there is an argument to be made that the trans community as a whole is a little cranky because we could all use a nice big glass of water.

you will never catch me with a free fifteen minutes in which I'm not studying something I feel might be able to help the black man.

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.