Quotes About Advocacy

I'm an activist and advocate. I have empathy. It is hard to ignore causes.

I'm not going to stand by and ignore things that I think are important to talk about.

It's very hard for politicians to ignore even just a handful of letters about the same issue.

There's always going to be people who don't understand or accept the united science, and I will just ignore them, as I'm only acting and communicating on the science.

Advocates of unrestricted abortion do not want the public to focus on these undeniable facts of fetal development, but the facts cannot be ignored.

Disabled people are deliberately ignored because disabled people need more care and more money.

I've learned how to measure what I say. Al Sharpton in 1986 was trying to be heard. I was a local guy and was like, 'Y'all are ignoring us.'

I think there is a lot of activism and energy from people all over America, and some of them are being represented by members that appear to be ignoring their constituents.

The Democrats are fighting for illegal aliens. Donald Trump is fighting for American citizens.

Autism and seizures are the least known areas of illnesses.

For more than two decades, GLAAD has combatted anti-LGBT images in the media and changed the national conversation about LGBT people.

There's still an immense amount of discrimination that happens against trans people.

You don't have to be Latino to speak powerfully about how important it is to have a police department that cares for our immigrant communities.

We've got to do everything we can to speak to and protect our immigrant communities.

Donald Trump is a champion for legal immigrants.

I'm a woman of colour. I am the daughter of immigrants. I am a Muslim. I am a feminist. I am a lefty liberal.

There is no more an enthusiastic advocate of legal immigration in the U.S. Senate than I am, and that is a message that resonates powerfully in the Hispanic community.

I am more than an immigration activist.

I was one of the founding members of State Legislators for Legal Immigration.

I have fought for open immigration which is something I disagree with Nigel Farage on.

I want to have an impact because I don't want anybody to have to go through what I went through.

I know some people believe impartiality is key, and it's necessary in some situations, but in others - if something is so fundamentally wrong, why do we have to make out we're impartial?

It's very important to balance things; it's imperative to do something for the society, and women in particular, and help women who aren't in position to help themselves.

There's so much importance in honoring your everyday hero. It doesn't take money. It doesn't take connections. What matters is that people get involved. Whether your passion is gun control or food or whatever it may be, everybody needs to stop being so self-absorbed.