Quotes About Advocacy

At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes.

I'm big on being anti-stereotypical and fighting negative stereotypes.

I am conscious of the community that I'm representing and don't play into stereotypes.

Now and forevermore, I'm going to stick up for immigrants, and I'm going to stick up for Hispanic people and their rights. I feel like that's just my job.

You have to stick up for what you believe in. And that, to me, is the biggest thing you can do about driving inclusion.

More women need to stick together.

I'm always sticking up for other people.

If there's a principle really worth sticking up for, I'll go the whole way.

It's something my mother believed in: If you are in a position of privilege, if you can put your name to something that you genuinely believe in, you can smash any stigma you want, and you can encourage anybody to do anything.

My mom Neerja and I started this movement called Mpower. The whole idea is to break the stigma attached to mental illnesses.

There are people with much bigger profiles than mine who are talking about mental illness. I am going to try to use whatever platform I have, whatever voice I have to help eliminate the stigma.

When I did Mira Nair's film on AIDS, people told me to stay away from it and even asked me reasons why I chose to do a film on the stigma. My reason for choosing the movie is similar. It is a social reality and there is no harm being a part of a movie like this as it really dissects the reality of the crisis.

The biggest part of what Anita Hill did was take away the stigma of coming forward, and it took a lot for her to do that. We don't have these conversations, because of the fear that people won't believe you or you'll get attacked if you come forward. She came forward anyway and continued to tell her story.

There are already dozens of organizations working on trying to prevent plastic from going into the ocean, through advocacy, education, awareness, all great work, yet nobody was addressing the stock of existing pollution.

It's no fun to protest on an empty stomach.

Roger Stone is one of my personal heroes.

I don't want to be remembered as the girl who was shot. I want to be remembered as the girl who stood up.

We should honor - not attack - those who have stood up for equality and other cherished American values.

When I stood up to oppose an invasion of Iraq in 2002, it wasn't a popular thing to do.

Wilberforce, because of his faith, stood up for African slaves. Bonhoeffer, because of his faith, stood up for Jews. That's Christianity to me.

I've always stood up for country music.

Injustice can never be stood for.

I think of Harriet Muse as one fierce lady. She couldn't read. She had no education. She did labor her whole life. And she stood up to Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey at a time where she was told where to work, where to sit, and she demanded that they pay attention to her.

I identify... with the ideas that Malcolm X stood for.