Quotes About Advocacy

I'm going to be a voice for Californians who are suffering because California can't do the basics.

This is what my calling is now. I'm here to try to help our party.

I thought it was ridiculous that I was being paid less than a cameraman, and I wanted to shame them. And I did.

In any human-rights campaign, everybody must do what they can.

I loved campaigning.

It is only because of the love of masses that I am campaigning for the SP.

It's not like I have campaigns, I don't want to be an activist or anything.

The Time's Up movement extends to every college campus and, of course, athletics.

I want people to be mad as hell. Be mad as hell and work toward something. Find an issue and find a candidate that you believe in.

Every time you hear that the majority of Democratic candidates go on stage, they say poor women of color need access to abortion. I was born to a poor woman of color. I was a poor woman of color when I gave birth to my children. Who's to say that their lives are worth any less than others?

I will go back to my life when women in captivity go back to their lives, when my community has a place, when I see people accountable for their crimes.

No election is ever just about one issue, but I care a lot about women's rights and making sure parents have what they need to raise healthy kids. I always have cared, but having just had a child, I know how serious it is to be a mother. It's an incredibly huge challenge. You need support. You need resources.

It was the Cosby issue that made me realize how much I really cared about women's issues and how much I realize it's important for me to be an advocate for issues that aren't necessarily my own, to be an ally for issues.

For more than 20 years my identity was bonded with those people on death row, I cared about them.

It's nice to have the support of the LGBT community, because they're loyal, and they'll follow you down any career path.

I've become more cause-driven as I've got older. Maybe that's a result of having kids; you become less carefree and more worried about things.

As a carer for my disabled son, I understand just how hard caring is, at the best of times. I know how important it is for families to get the support they need.

I often get too emotionally involved in my cases.

What keeps me going is those cases, maybe ten a year, where I can make a difference.

If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.

Take what you're good at and give to the cause that you care most about.

If there's a cause you believe in, go out there, get active, and do it.

I think Alzheimer's is an important cause.

My parents were both lawyers and were very active in social causes when I was young.