Quotes About Advocacy

Activists take the risks, while advocates are professional tinkerers with the system. What's necessary is for those who are advocates to support those who are activists and to envision themselves as activists.

Now I can give back and be a role model and an advocate for women in sport.

The Latin root of the word 'politics' means 'of the people.' Politics is about something bigger than electoral politics; in that sense, I feel like I'm already involved.

My movement is 'Rose Army.'

The mainstream needs Ellen DeGeneres and Rosie O'Donnell. The mainstream needs RuPaul.

I'm a liberal - and I'm not running from that word!

I did more than anyone else in persuading the U.S. to get rid of Saddam.

My spirit is as strong as ever. I'm still fighting to make the world a safer place, and you can, too.

I don't know who I am outside of someone who's just trying to be free and find safety for myself and for others.

I think saving the NHS is a lifetime's work.

What we are trying to do is to look at all of those resources and say, well, would they be better spent on just advocacy and information, or can we make savings out of that and redirect them into savings.

With things that I'm going through, whether they be on a small scale or a large scale, I'm thinking, 'Who else is going through this? And how can I address it and bring it to light to help someone else?'

I would say it's important for scientists to speak out when they can and when they can be listened to.

I will continue fighting to protect our Second Amendment rights.

For me personally, I'm anti-gun and always have been and always will be. But I'm definitely not someone who is looking to abolish the Second Amendment. I think we're definitely interpreting it wrong.

I have never wavered in my support for the Second Amendment.

When I was on 'Doubt' on CBS, there was a 60-second scene, but in that 60 seconds, people were so affected because it was trans women in a very normalized situation.

Security for women needs to focussed on every section of the society.

Without peace and without the overwhelming majority of people that believe in peace defending it, working for it, believing in it, security can never really be a reality.

People don't get involved with local charities or politics because they think it's hard to make a difference and the problem feels overwhelming. But I believe that if all I've time for this year is to write one letter to the local council, it's still worth doing.

I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same.

I owe my career to J.J. Abrams. He fought for me.

I don't believe gun owners have rights.

I would like there to be an entity, a person with some authority, to interact with government, with officials, to advocate on behalf of firearms owners.