Quotes About Advocacy

I'm a spokesperson for the foundation for women's cancer, so I will continue to raise awareness and help those that need help.

I joined forces with the American Cancer Society in 2010 as a spokesperson for the N.F.L.'s 'A Crucial Catch' campaign, which benefits the American Cancer Society. This was important to me because I lost my mother to breast cancer, and I have always felt a strong commitment to doing all I can to fight this disease.

I never wear fur, and I am a spokesperson for PETA.

I think it's so important that the spokesperson for the president can adequately speak to his policies and get his message out there.

I think I've kind of been mistaken for somebody who's trying to be a spokesperson for animal rights, and the fact is I'm not qualified to be a spokesperson. I am passionate about it, but I'm not trying to make other people do what I do.

I was put out there as a spokesperson for the new feminist revolution. It was very difficult because I was either too feminist or not feminist enough, depending on who you spoke to.

It is a little scary to go across the whole country, and basically the world, and be like, 'What's up? I'm gay, and you should let me get married everywhere.' I don't feel like I'm a spokesperson. I just sing what my experience is.

It's true. I'm not a spokesperson. But I can say now that transgendered people like to be heard and to be respected.

Washington is rigged for the big guys - and no person has more consistently called them out for it than Jon Stewart. Good luck, Jon!

I care nothing for all the political parties in the world except as they stand for justice.

I want my commitment to ending girl marriage to be equal to my commitment to ending apartheid.

[Banning marriage equality is] discrimination, plain and simple. It's really not about votes. It's about people. I think it's the right thing to do as a human being.

Marriage equality is not a choice. It is a legal right.

I want a Supreme Court that will stick with Roe v. Wade and a woman's right to choose, and I want a Supreme Court that will stick with marriage equality.

I'm doing 'Rock of Ages' one day, making out with Russell Brand. Soon after that, I'm advocating with Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Cynthia Nixon for marriage equality.

We really need to come behind and press for marriage equality in Northern Ireland.

Nurses serve their patients in the most important capacities. We know that they serve as our first lines of communication when something goes wrong or when we are concerned about health.

Stigma against mental illness is a scourge with many faces, and the medical community wears a number of those faces.

(Doctors) collectively have done more to block adequate medical care for people of this country than any other single group.

To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards of men.

Don't let any man into your cab, your home, or your heart, unless he's a friend of labor.

Let men be compelled to wear our dress for awhile and we should soon hear them advocating a change.

I know nothing of man's rights, or woman's rights; human rights are all that I recognize.

I'm for the poor man - all poor men, black and white, they all gotta have a chance. They gotta have a home, a job, and a decent education for their children. 'Every man a king' - that's my slogan.