Quotes About Advocacy

The fight goes on with or without me, I'm just a pawn. But at least I'm a pawn on the morally right side.

You just keep shining a light and hoping people will start to pay attention.

All I can do is pay attention, listen to what people in Minnesota are saying and do everything I can to bring that voice to Washington.

I want to be the kind of elected official who not only pays attention but who acts on behalf of people - just average people. Fancy lobbyists get to tell their story, but the average person doesn't.

Defending peace is the duty of all.

As a child, I went to peace and ERA marches on the back of my mom and grandmother. Through them I learned that I wanted to find a way to make the world a more kind, compassionate place.

It's like, 'Oh, well of course you want gay marriage, you're gay.' I think when heterosexual people are talking to their peers and they're like, 'This is an equal rights thing,' it's a little bit easier.

If you know anything about what a lot of the senior leaders at Amazon do in their free time, they spend a lot of time on civil liberties. It's something that's very important to me and I think a lot of my peers.

We have abolished the death penalty for humans, so why should it continue for animals?

We must work to build a criminal-legal system that is deeply rooted in a love for humanity, which begins with ending the federal death penalty in our country.

I'm actually really opposed to the death penalty.

I am against the death penalty.

I was badly mauled by people in New York State for being against the death penalty for 12 years.

My personal view is that I am opposed to the death penalty.

I'm really trying to bring an end to the death penalty because it means so much to me.

When I got lucky enough to be successful as an actor, and I got involved in the anti-war stuff and gay rights movement, there was always this thing eating at me about the death penalty, because that was, to me, the bottom line. That was the anti-life - by definition - position, and I didn't understand why we did it.

There is no place for the death penalty in a just, humane society.

It didn't matter whether I had a penny or whether I had a billion dollars. There was nothing that was going to keep me out of a courtroom, and there was nothing that was going to keep me from helping others.

So many times I've heard people say that the right to marry for gay and lesbian couples won't really change anything other than some legal and financial stuff. It's a dumb argument: those legal and financial effects matter.

I'm not an activist per se, but I have strong feelings about things. People can jump on celebrities for being ill-informed or naive, but I've got a right to say what I believe.

I identify with the 99 per cent.

How pro-lifers are perceived by those who oppose us is important.

My job as an artist is to speak up for those who might be perceived as the losers. Or those who can't shout. No wonder public-school people always get into politics or acting: they're taught to shout that much more loudly.

I am far from a perfect pro-lifer.