Quotes About Advocacy

I was brought up with a very strong value that you should always protect the small and the few against those who want to misuse their muscle and weight in order to get what they weren't supposed to.

This is the kind of stuff me and my friends talk about. We sit around and drink coffee, and we're really angry: We're like, 'Where's the Latino Museum?' Where can we go with our families, where can we go with our friends to learn about our history?

I know so many girls that have felt like they've been taken advantage of. Not only in the music business, but in every single career out there.

The NRA isn't a boogeyman organization behind a curtain. The NRA is made up of millions of people who believe in the Second Amendment and the organization is very closely connected to the country music community.

The music industry isn't unionised in the same way Hollywood is. If I've got a problem, who do I go to?

Being a musician doesn't take away your right as a citizen to speak your mind.

Muslim Americans in general tend to be an underrepresented political group.

Affirmative action works but we're going to need to muster all our political resources if we are to keep it in place.

I feel like I'm the voice for my generation, especially for women.

Being on 'The Voice,' I have a voice. I'm speaking for my generation, and that's huge.

My journey has really been trying to normalize girls loving girls.

When I became the chair of the British Film Institute, I didn't understand how much of my time would be taken up with trying to make a case for the British Film Institute: what it's for, why it exists, why it needs its money.

During my time in Washington, I have become increasingly frustrated by the power held by the gun lobby.

It was the desire to see black girls and our experiences in the books that I was given to read at school that forced me to speak my truth. I launched #1000BlackGirlBooks, a book drive to collect the stories of women of color.

I would describe and I have described myself to people who ask as a freedom fighter.

I would rather be the candidate of the NAACP than the NRA.

I'd rather go naked than wear fur.

I'm not ashamed of anything I've ever done in the name of fairness and justice for my people.

I agree with my sister when she said that certain people, whose names have cropped up in the #MeToo movement, should not be allowed to work. That's the stand which the industry should take.

You know, there is an image of me out there for which advocacy of a universal basic income is inconsistent. It doesn't fit the narrative because this is supposed to be the hardhearted, racist, sexist, homophobe, Charles Murray. And he wants to increase spending on the poor? That doesn't fit.

The narrative in 2020 must speak about gender equality which will only come from empowering the women who've been given the short end of the stick for far too long.

I will defend the NASA Earth Science Division with everything I've got.

You don't drive a NASCAR on the street, no matter how fun it might be, just like you don't need an AR-15 to protect yourself when walking home at night. No one does.

I've always been endorsed by the National Rifle Association.