Quotes About Advocacy

Everyone who supports Israel is a Zionist.

Your zip code or your income level should not dictate your access to healthy drinking water.

A lot of the issues today may not affect us personally, but we can't stay in our comfort zone when it comes to protecting our brothers and sisters. We have to get out there and use our voices for them as well.

I think when I started going to war zones and started covering humanitarian issues, it became a calling because I realized I had a voice, and I can give people without a voice a voice... and now it is something that sits inside of me every day.

I am in earnest; I will not equivocate; I will not excuse; I will not retreat a single inch; and I will be heard.

The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open.

Ef women want any rights more'n dey got, why don't dey jes' take 'em and not be talkin' about it.

All talk of women's rights is moonshine. Women have every right. They have only to exercise them.

We're half the people, we should be half the Congress.

The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good.

To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.

The legacy I want to leave is a child-care system that says no kid is going to be left alone or left unsafe.

You really can change the world if you care enough.

The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.

I think it's my responsibility, as a person of influence... to sometimes try to do what I can.

Animals are near and dear to my heart, and I've devoted my life to trying to improve their lives.

Some people feel, you make your case, if they listen to you, fine, if they don't, that's it. That's not what leadership is. Leadership is trying to continue to make a case.

I, personally, am trying to get more and more involved with the gay and lesbian movement, very much so.

I think, at the end of the day, acting and activism are both about empathy. You're trying to get people to see other people as real and human. And to care.

For all my life, I've been trying to tell Madam's story and really it's a labor of love just to make sure people know about her and the empowerment she gave to other women.

If I wrote in Jacob Riis' time, I'd be writing about teeming slums in our cities and kids dying of tuberculosis or outhouses in Philadelphia or kids losing their toes because they were living in homes without heat. He took on a battle in 'The Battle with the Slums' - and we won.

Anyone who lives with a dog, as I do, knows that dogs are thinking, feeling individuals who do not deserve to be caged, scared and used as disposable test tubes with tails.

Even if I have a good day, I still am aware of other people that are going through really hard, tumultuous things. I don't want to be the person who has a platform and neglects the things I see in my life and experiences.

Tupac was actually pro-choice, which is fantastic. Of course, those moments in rap are few and far between.