Quotes About Advocacy

The dignity of our neighbors deserves to be defended.

Serving my neighbors in Congress and fighting for them has been the best job I've ever had.

It's not enough to speak loudly and confidently. You have to know how to get the world on your side, to accept Israel's ideas of security and defending its interests. Netanyahu does not know how to do this.

National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.

Moses freed the Jews. Lincoln freed the slaves. I freed the neurotics.

I am not a great believer in the idea that journalistic neutrality means you have to abandon the people you talk to.

Neutrality is for referees in a football game. You have to take a stand. The really, really good journalists always take a stand with those who have no power, with those who have no rights, and with those who have no voice.

I will never stop complaining.

I'm going to do as much as I can for the animal world, and I'll never stop.

As a child, my father taught me to never take my freedoms for granted. He challenged me to fight for what is right.

Whenever the Republicans have an opportunity, they've tried to make New Mexico into a right-to-work state, and so I've been on the front lines fighting that for a long time.

It would be nice if every state were like New Mexico and cared about the Indian vote.

Fair and affordable housing is a basic right for all New Yorkers and all Americans.

I'm just not gonna let up until I know I've done absolutely everything I can for New Yorkers.

I really love my job, and I feel like I can make a huge difference for New Yorkers, fighting for them.

As soon as I got out of law school, I went to inner city Newark, New Jersey, to become a housing rights lawyer, because people fought for my housing rights, I was going to pay it forward by fighting for others.

I am the executive director of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration, which is the country's only national immigrant rights organization for black immigrants and African Americans. Being the daughter of Nigerian immigrants really drove me to do this type of work.

We might take it for granted now, but back in the nineties, who was talking about mental health?

If a woman is saying something out loud, she is asking for help, and you have no business to character assassinating her. You have to reach out to her and help her and protect her, and I think we need to protect our women, and we need to protect our children.

I wrote 'Milk' for me. I wrote it for the younger version of me that had no clue that there are people who'd ever fought for my rights.

I have no desire to go through the emancipation of women and homosexuals all over again.

I realize now that I was a feminist and the minute I heard the word I certainly knew it meant me, but at that time I don't think we had the label yet. But there's no doubt about it that I was born a feminist.

We know that gun violence disproportionately affects Black people in this country, and that was no exception with my son Jordan.

There is no excuse for inaction in the face of economic injustice.