Quotes About Advocacy

Being silent and doing nothing is never the right answer. What happens in one state can happen in another.

I'm a liberal Democrat, and I state that proudly.

My major obligation or responsibility is to work to integrate gender issues throughout the work of the State Department.

But at the end of the day, I want people to say that I played a major role in restoring people's confidence in the ability of state government to be on their side, to fight for them, and again - I'll say it again - to get things done.

I am not against the state government. I am pro-people... Whenever the government goes wrong, I will speak up for the people of the state.

The NRA has become financially dependent on more and more guns being sold - especially the expensive ones. In turn, the NRA has stated that its top legislative priority is to protect gun makers by advocating for legislation that benefits them.

I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women.

I would rather be an aware citizen, and if an opportunity were to arise where I would have to make a statement, I would happily do that.

'Glee' is one of the very few mainstream outlets that is giving a voice to communities of people that don't necessarily have a loud voice, specifically the gay community. It gives a really positive and forward statement.

There are only a few times in a man's life where you have the chance to stand up for something that you believe in and make a statement.

So many people are campaigning, fighting, and even dying to make a statement in the name of humanity. These people have no voice that can be heard by many. I wish more celebrities would take the initiative to be that voice.

I'm a walking political statement.

The way I eat is a heavy statement on my belief system. I eat cruelty-free. It is my way of being able to take a stand against doing harm to any living creature.

The founding of Graeae by disabled actors was a huge political statement that you forgot at your peril.

My existence in Hollywood is a political statement, because there are so few women who are plus-sized or above a size 6.

Everything is not a political statement. Everything is not about being an advocate. Sometimes it's just pure entertainment.

We as footballers, like with Sancho, have a lot of power to reach other people, to be role models and to say something. What we say to people outside gives us a big chance to make a statement.

The poet is primarily a spokesman, making statements or incantations on behalf of himself or others - usually for both, for it is difficult to speak for oneself without speaking for others or to speak for others without speaking for oneself.

As a female athlete, I think it's really important to stand up on a podium and represent females and what we're capable of, and I always try to make political statements with what I do rather than with headlines.

I think that's the place ideally we'd like to get to as well, as queer people, where you can just judge the music for what it is and not just because it's gay. I think it's important that until we get to that place, statements have to be made, and we have to be loud and outward, so that's where I'm coming from.

If you really want a radio station to play your song, go to that radio station every day with that song in your hand and say, 'Please play it.'

I've actually done events at radio stations where I feel like I've had to give a little talk in behalf of television as a medium.

When the first record came out, I'd go down to radio stations pretty much every day to get the record played, and I would walk in and they'd tell us how much they loved the record, but they weren't sure how much they could play it because they were already playing a girl.

I have one idea of how to get more Democratic women to polling stations: Stand up for them.