Quotes About Advocacy

I feel as a singer and musician, it's my responsibility to talk about social issues, and you will hear about them in my music as well.

Kulanu is the only party actually championing social issues.

Christians need to embrace that there need to be believers talking about love and social issues and all other aspects of life.

I will never shy away from social issues in my books - or in my everyday life.

I know it's very comfortable to sit at home and stay with your family, kids and friends and not worry about anything. But with the platform we have we should be the people that scream at the social issues and put them out there so as a society we can move forward.

Social issues is something I've been a part of changing and pushing for. It's embedded and ingrained in my soul. It's not something that personally I try to plan. It just comes in the heat of the moment.

I have spent all my life advocating on behalf of the poor, oppressed and marginalized. As a social justice and human rights activist, and now as President of the Republic of Malawi, I have a deep appreciation for the challenges of those on the margins of society.

Oxfam is part of a global movement for social justice. We mainly work to fight for economic and social rights for people without a voice or people who are oppressed.

My son Emilio is running for Congress to continue the fight for social justice.

We have fought for social justice. We have fought for economic justice. We have fought for environmental justice. We have fought for criminal justice. Now we must add a new fight - the fight for electoral justice.

I want all of the work that I do to have a social justice footprint attached. I want it to move the needle forward when it comes to the perception of all people, but especially people of color.

Aside from my family, I have two great loves in my life: acting and the fight for social justice.

When you're fighting for economic and social justice, you're always fighting for the minority.

Whatever I do, it will be fighting for social justice.

It's to be a person who's able to shoot little arrows into sacred cows and knock politicians off their pedestals, to look out for hypocrisy, advocate for all sorts of things from social justice to peace.

I began to understand that not only was there was a social justice agenda, there was a policy agenda. For every justice campaign there was a policy initiative associated with it.

I think that a church should be setting the pace for social justice.

My kids are really into social justice.

If you're into social justice it's hard not to be on black people's side.

Statehood for the District of Columbia is the most important civil rights and social justice issue in America today.

I hope to be remembered for writing books about social justice that also have enough aesthetic value to endure as works of literature.

As my audience grew more diverse, I started interjecting social justice advocacy and commentaries about LGBT equality, and it just kept growing more.

My parents being from Nigeria deeply informs all my social justice and human rights work.

Gun violence and social justice are near and dear to my heart. And they are so connected it's sad.