Quotes About Advocacy

The challenge lies in the fact that the planet has limited time. Be it climate change or nuclear fallout, there is very little time. You have to pick your cause.

And on the war, I think my numbers would be a lot higher if I were out there beating the drum for this war. In fact, I don't think it, I know it. But I can't be for the war.

Anybody who fights for human rights or to make this world a better place. Nurses, doctors, teachers: these are the people who deserve the credit these days.

I get lobbied by governments, schools, nurses, charities. It's not all a bad thing.

Childhood nutrition and healthy eating is a cause that is extremely close to my heart.

If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it?

We are not giving up on repealing and replacing Obamacare.

Obamacare wouldn't exist - it's saved millions of lives - without Pelosi getting it through the House. Not a perfect piece of legislation, but she deserves a lot of credit for that.

When you have a voice, you also have a moral obligation to use that voice for good.

I don't apologize for looking after New Jersey's interests. That's an obligation that I'll always keep.

There are things that need to be said... and I think it's my obligation to say them.

We also have to think as fighters, celebrities - whatever you want to call us - that we have an obligation to point out stuff that's just completely wrong.

We have an obligation to each other to not only push our politicians but to push companies to do right by their workers.

Being a young black man, observing and sensing the need for race equality and women's rights, I wrote about what was important to me.

A lot of people of color and the Black Lives Matter movement will talk about what's really happening, but it seems like you can't get the black president to say something that's obvious about what's happening to black people in this country.

The moral case for gender equality is obvious. It should not need any explanation.

There's nothing more mainstream than equal pay for equal work. I mean, it's completely obvious that's what feminism should be for, and for women's right to choose what happens to their own bodies.

People were getting sick. It seemed, at least to me when I started looking at the information, looking at the documents, that this was pretty obvious, what was going on, and if other people could see what we were seeing, they would agree: this is obvious and it needs to stop.

Obviously any group that has to have funding also needs to get attention to their issues.

I've been saying the Occupy Movement has got the ball rolling, and now we need to take the fight to the great indoors!

You know, it takes a while to develop a voice. But once you have it, you damn sure better use it on stuff that matters.

True believers in a cause often behaved in self-defeating ways because they expected other people to see the rightness of their cause if they just stated it clearly enough. As a result, they tipped their hand in every game and couldn't understand why everyone ganged up against them.

It's a tragedy that we need to continually prove that we are human beings.

It doesn't matter how strong your opinions are. If you don't use your power for positive change, you are, indeed, part of the problem.