Quotes About Advocacy

I want to study law, become a lawyer, and work in Afghanistan for human rights.

More attention should be given to the Arab world and the human rights abuse that is taking place every day in many countries in the Arab world.

We need to fight for a new human rights movement that recognizes and values black life.

Because I play in the NBA, I am lucky enough to have a public platform, so I've used every opportunity to make sure everyone knows about Erdogan's cruelty and disdain for human rights.

The struggle for freedom and human rights is universal and Canada used to be a leader.

What do you actually mean when you say human rights? Animals don't have rights in that sense.

So, I'm a big believer in democracy and human rights.

Human suffering is not, nor should it ever be, a political issue.

I have dedicated my career to advocating for a more equitable, humane criminal justice system.

To me, a feminist belongs in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don't see why someone who's a feminist should be thought of differently.

I don't consider myself as a feminist but more a humanist.

I'm not a humanitarian, I'm a hell-raiser.

My position on guns is the same position I've had for a long, long time. That position is that I don't line up a hundred percent with the NRA. I don't see eye to eye with the NRA on every issue.

Can you not see that women could do and would do a hundred times more for the slave, if she were not fettered?

There are 38,000 people dying of hunger each day and most are children. And, being a celebrity, I communicate about it as much as I can.

Often when we talk about food and food policy, it is thinking about hunger and food access through food pantries and food banks, all of which are extremely important.

Hunger and homelessness aren't things we always want to talk about.

If I'm stone-cold crazy because I have a hard time going to sleep at night because we have kids that go to bed hungry, then I'll be stone-cold crazy, and I'm OK with that.

A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.

Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie.

I'd love to have a chance to fight in the World Series Boxing for women, but nothing has been done about that.

As a Jew, I was taught that it was ethically imperative to speak up and to speak out against arbitrary state violence. That was part of what I learned when I learned about the Second World War and the concentration camps.

My father, John Steinbeck, was a man who held human history in great reverence, and in particular the biographies of those people who had risked their lives, their fortunes, and their worldly honor to defend the rights and prerogatives of those who were powerless to defend themselves.

When you have a celebrity who is willing to shine his personal spotlight on the non-profit and can also speak articulately about the mission, that's really the best of both worlds.