Quotes About Advocacy

I'm part of the consumer culture... I'm just using the space I am given to express something that is out of the space so I'm part of the consumer system but I'm advocating stepping out. Which is a contradiction but I could be part of he consumer system and say, 'let's consume even more.'

Fairness is not just about getting equal pay for equal work (though it is that too!) - it's about taking bold and challenging steps to raise incomes and protect those with little or no economic power.

Certain people are like 'Oh, here come the Feminazis!' You end up acting 10 times nicer than you even need to be, to be the opposite of the stereotype like 'You're the man haters!' We're always bending over backwards being extra nice. And I don't know if being nice is my legacy.

How can someone insult and demean their own people to defend others when those that are being defended have no say in it or even have no animus towards the supposed offender?

her one overarching cause during the campaign was opposing discrimination, the unfair "barriers" that kept the talented from rising.

raise less corn and more hell.

red-shirted teachers in Arizona.

This solidarity business I used to talk about ain't just--what do you youngsters call it?--theoretical. It means putting your body, your physical self, on the line, baby girl. Even when--especially when--it ain't convenient.

Stanis?aw Krzy?anowski believed in democracy, equal rights for everyone, fair access to health care, an eight-hour workday, and an end to the crippling tradition of child labor.

There's no question that the gay movement would not be as far along as it is without AIDS. But how can there be any other issue in the face of death, possible extinction?

When I decided to do 'The Celebrity Apprentice,' there was absolutely no question that I would play the game for GMHC.

There's no question that the best way to get people to care about an issue is to humanize it.

There are a lot of gay transvestites who have been in jail for no reason at all.

I don't want to go to Washington to be a co-sponsor of some bland little bill nobody cares about. I don't want to go to Washington to get my name on something that makes small change at the margin.

I believe we've got to be able to make some noise to create change.

Do not tell somebody how to vote, just go up to them and tell them what Fahrenheit 9/11 meant to you. Fahrenheit will probably not win an Academy Award, but if you put it first on your list, it will become a nominee.

I really believe in non-violence, but I also believe in a short of resistance that has to be respectful.

People who run environmental groups and things like that, who have to listen to all kinds of nonsense and keep their tempers, are very diplomatic and very inclusive.

I believe in a nonviolent movement of boycott, divestment, sanctions.

Neither left nor right has focused adequately on maternal health.

Whether it is crimes against women, whether it's discrimination against women, whether it's just social bias against women - these things should be anomalies; they should not be the norm.

We should not label people who speak up, because it should not be the exception - it should be the norm. When you see something wrong, you speak up.

I'm just a very normal person, living in north London, doing my best for my area and to put forward some serious debate on issues in the party.

There is a holocaust going on in my country, the world needs to acknowledge that and do something to help the people of North Korea.