Quotes About Advocacy

Something we learned from foster kids after sitting down with them to hear their stories is that so many of them are invested in social justice, and they're all invested in making the system better for the kids behind them.

Do you know what social justice is? Do you know what social reform is? I didn't either, but reform and social justice are what I intend to do.

Barbara Castle should have been Labour's - and Britain's - first female prime minister. What a role model she would have been: passionate, fiery, and absolutely committed to social justice.

I consider myself a social justice person.

There are always groups on campus that are doing amazing things. I know when I was in college, I was a student at the University of Arizona, working on my bachelor's in history, and I got involved with a number of different groups that were connected to different social justice issues that I cared about.

Most people, certainly faculty, believe that if they're for social justice, it's automatically integrated into whatever they do.

As a social justice lawyer, I started marches against Trump here in Detroit.

Martin Luther King Jr. was an impassioned advocate of economic justice as well as social justice.

You have got to have social justice to have climate justice.

The brands that choose to use me, my agency and social media have given me a face and a voice.

My ministry's always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.

I think there's a social responsibility that comes with a public platform. Because of the position that I've been put in, I think it's important to use my voice to do as much as I can.

Actors have a social responsibility.

Protecting Medicare and Social Security, health care, workers' rights, and a woman's right to choose remain top priorities for me.

We got to fight to protect Social Security.

I have a human services bachelors degree and I want to work social work, I want to work with at-risk youth.

I have been into social work since 45 years, and at an average, every day for one or two hours, I have been engaging in social discourses. It is not a small thing.

I am friendly to all political parties. So, I am able to do my social work freely without any hassles.

I have been advocating in favor of free markets and against socialism since I was a teenager.

I am a socialist, and everyone knows it.

Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a socialist.

I have no problem with saying I am a socialist or with saying I'm a feminist. That's how I was when I was 15, and you know, I haven't grown out of it and probably never will.

For me, politics is about passion. It doesn't matter what you know; it's your actions that count. I meet people who say they're socialists, and that's not what they carry out in their everyday life.

My father was an ardent socialist for many years.