Quotes About Advocacy

I'm a lobbyist and had a career lobbying. The guy who gets elected or the lady who gets elected president of the United States will immediately be lobbying. They would be advocating to the Congress, they'll be lobbying our allies and our adversaries overseas. They'll be asking the business community and labor unions.

This is the basis, and I am not being tried for whether I am a Communist, I am being tried for fighting for the rights of my people, who are still second-class citizens in this United States of America.

When I stand up here, and I'm fighting for your rights and the rights of all people in these United States of America, I am a true patriot.

Look, I'm not a water expert. I'm not a scientist. But I've been to Flint. I've seen what's happening. We have a third-world situation still going on in the United States of America. That's the truth.

Passion and standing up for things can help create a sense of unity. But you still have to act a certain way.

We seek the right to play our part in advancing the cause of national defense and national unity. But certainly, there can be no true national unity where one-tenth of the population is denied their basic rights as American citizens.

I believe in universal health care. And I am not afraid to say so.

Let's just say I'm a believer in universal, single-payer healthcare insurance.

I'm a huge believer in universal childcare.

In the world of celebrity, there is one universal law: if there's a scandal or death, Al Sharpton will be there.

Human rights represent absolute and universal values. They should be protected by all means we have at our disposal.

Gay marriage will be universally accepted in time. But if I may be so bold as to say to gays and lesbians, don't wait for that time to arrive. Just as my father and his generation did not 'wait' for their civil rights, nor should you. The toothpaste ain't going back in the tube. The tide has turned.

You look at the Americans. They don't lack fervour in moral causes. They promote democracy, freedom of speech, women's rights, gay rights, sometimes even transgender rights. But you don't see them applying that universally across the world with all their allies.

Especially as a title-holder, you can do great things with charities, because people suddenly care about what you have to say. I wanted to make a difference, which is why I created the Queen of the Universe pageant. I want to change all of those stigmas in the beauty pageant world.

Being Miss Universe is much more than having a sash and a crown. It is about taking pride in my commitment to serving as an ambassador to my country - and to women everywhere.

I resonate with everything that the Miss Universe organisation stands for, especially empowering women across the globe.

I believe that our office has clearly been the leader in building coalitions, in getting other universities across the contrary to interact more effectively with the government and particularly the Congress.

I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent.

I'd ask myself, 'What do I think is really unjust?' That should be a starting point for how you engage with the world.

When we live in a world that is very unjust, you have to be a dissident.

If something strikes me as insane and unjust, I cannot tolerate that.

I had fought against the unjust restriction of immigration.

Without the ability to criticize unjust laws in powerful symbolic ways, we can't change them. And the point of a democracy is that people should be able to convince other people to change a law.

When I started working in human rights, Eastern Europe was communist, South Africa was under apartheid and South Korea had military rule. All the changes have come about not because of the militaries or government but because small groups of people spoke out against what was unfair and unjust.