Quotes About Advocacy

Because no one has the right to treat them as they have been treated?

Girls need to protect each other, especially when adults do nothing but watch.

It's pretty clear: If you don't ask, you usually don't get what you deserve.

Stand up for what is right, regardless of who is committing the wrong.

Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.

It's also important for those who promote those issues within the white community - the somewhat privileged community - to talk about issues affecting people of color.

I somewhat resist the whole gay rights-vampire rights metaphor because it is fraught with problems. I don't want to be seen as a gay man as a blood-sucking killer. I don't think it is the way to win hearts and minds.

Lawyers don't serve everyone... Lawyers right now can say, 'I'm not the person to help you on that issue; I don't agree with what you're trying to do;' and they can turn down that person, and they can go somewhere else.

After I had my son, Max, I knew I wanted to get involved in causes that help children.

I wouldn't believe there was something 'wrong' with my son.

As the mother of a son with disabilities, I try to keep an eye out for news that affects people in the large community of which he is a part.

As songwriters, we are lucky to have ASCAP on our side, offering support and fighting for our rights.

I would advise any gay person that being out in the real sense can never happen too soon.

When people performing on the public's behalf feel intimidated, it's a sorry affair.

I knew in my soul that girls like me needed to be represented.

I do my best to make every word from my pen a cry from the heart for the souls of the dead.

As someone who lives with an animal, I think it's important to learn how to responsibly care for souls who don't have their own voice. They can't advocate for themselves.

Sometimes when I talk, I sound like a feminist because I get really angry when I hear certain things. For instance, a lot of families don't really educate their girls much while they educate their sons to the full extent. I think that's not fair.

I know I did 'Establishment Blues,' and I said 'This is not a song it's an outburst' and I'd play it, I never did describe it as a rant - R-A-N-T - but the thing is it's exactly that. Sometimes it sounds like that, but there's a lot out there on the everyday man, on the plight of the little guy.

I know it really sounds cheesy, but I did feel a duty to try to tell the stories of people who couldn't speak for themselves.

I want some colleague to be free to come help me when I say the time has come. That's what I'm fighting for, me. Now that sounds selfish. And if it helps somebody else, so be it.

There are some sour people out there, but we should be getting together and fighting for something bigger rather than Asians against Asians.

I have been working for years to promote a responsible energy policy that works to increase energy efficiency and invest in alternative and renewable energy sources.

Everybody now admits that apartheid was wrong, and all I did was tell the people who wanted to know where I come from how we lived in South Africa. I just told the world the truth. And if my truth then becomes political, I can't do anything about that.