Quotes About Advocacy

We stand with our Muslim community as President Trump singles them out for attack and unfairly-targeted policy.

Just because I'm in favor of gay rights doesn't mean that I'm gay or doesn't mean I'm some kind of 'sissy' or something. That's the language that you hear in locker rooms.

With over 3 million women battling breast cancer today, everywhere you turn there is a mother, daughter, sister, or friend who has been affected by breast cancer.

I 100% want to support the movement, #MeToo and Time's Up. We are a sisterhood.

Little Mix stand for girl power and sisterhood.

On the one hand, she is cut off from the protection awarded to her sisters abroad; on the other, she has no such power to defend her interests at the polls, as is the heritage of her brothers at home.

The #MeToo movement doesn't belong to Republicans or the Democrats. The #MeToo movement belongs to women who are having the courage to come forward and say this is wrong. People should be protected. We want that for all of our daughters and all of our sisters. We also want there to be rights for the accused.

If we say we believe in equality for all then we must fight for equality for all, not betray our immigrant sisters.

We absolutely have to support our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters. We just must. It's not fair that they don't get to live an authentic life.

I didn't even know how much of a feminist I was, and I realized, 'Oh my God, I was raised by a single mom who had to raise six kids. I have three sisters. Larry, you've been a feminist your whole life, and you really didn't know it until you've been presented with these issues.'

I'm always going to fight on behalf of my brothers and sisters.

Our brothers and sisters in the trans community, they showed up to every one of our marriage marches when it wasn't necessarily what they needed. So we have to be there for them, use our lessons learned in the marriage fight - how to win when it's difficult, how to change minds that are difficult to change.

We can't continue to sit on our hands and sit idly by as people are being brutalized, disenfranchised, and left out of the system.

I think making the referee aware of a situation, there is nothing wrong with that.

We must do all we can to help improve the deplorable human rights situation of the North Korean people.

I'll make a general comment about this whole dependence on 'celebrities.' I object to this situation as it is right now, where they have inadvertently or manipulatively become the spokespeople for the African continent.

In a situation where it's the child or the adult, I'm going with the child.

Do I want more women elected to Parliament? Absolutely. I devote significant amounts of time to getting more women in that situation.

There are six million female lives lost in the world every year simply because they are female.

I've been a member of the Labour Party sixty five years, and I remain in it, but I think it's all about campaigning for justice and peace, and if you do that, you get a lot of support.

I am a Radio 1 DJ and campaigner for women feeling confident at every size.

I would never represent a brand that didn't represent different shapes and sizes.

To be in a room and have to explain your point of view is a huge skill in Hollywood.

The most important thing my grandfather taught me was that the most noble way to use your skills, intellect and energy is to defend the marginalized against those with the greatest power - and that the resulting animosity from those in power is a badge of honor.