Quotes About Advocacy

I want to raise my kids, I want to get them through their teenage years. ... I do love my work with the UN and with PSVI so if I can do more of that and be more effective I will do whatever I can.

there are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I'm concerned that's like accusing a dog of having a bark!

[During] the passage of the Lilly Ledbetter [Fair Pay Act], equal pay for equal work, the women led that fight.

We still have tremendous work ahead of us to ensure that women have equal opportunities in the workplace and in our society.

I have and I will always work to promote a civil public discourse.

There is an awful lot of work to do to protect trans folks. We are still disproportionally poor and administratively and institutionally discriminated against at all levels of society.

I couldn't be more proud of my work as a progressive.

Outside of my film work, my advocacy and activism is centered around inter-connection and inter-dependence.

I'm not afraid to talk about the fact that women get paid less than men in the United States and how unfair that is. Talking about it at all is doing the work.

I was very fortunate to have known Fred Ross Sr., who was organizing the Community Service Organization (CSO) way back in the late 50's and early 60's. I was able to work with him.

I will work tirelessly to defend all communities, including the LGBTQ one, from terrorism and violence.

Writers, and particularly female writers, have to fight for the conditions they need to work.

These powerless people at the bottom are the ones with whom we must begin. They must have the insight and the knowledge to work together and recognise that they are on the right track.

I do want to work on a larger scale with bigger budgets partially as a way to prove that women can do that, for sure. I definitely feel a bit of a responsibility to do that.

I think that people are generally really terrible at being ambassadors of their own work.

In my work I fight for, I hope, showing women in a true way. They've got brains.

Now younger actresses will have a confidence in those discussions with their agents and be able to say, "Can we make sure that I'm being paid the right amount for the work that I'm doing?"

I'm small. I'm petite. But I'm a bit of a fighter inside. In my work I fight for, I hope, showing women in a true way. They've got brains.

I stand on my public record as a defender of the human rights of Muslims, notably my work for Moazzam Begg and other British Muslims detained without trial in Guantanamo Bay.

The woman who works for a dollar a day has as much right as any other human being to say what the conditions of her work should be.

I have made the cause of children and families really my life's work.

What motivates me is the desire to bring up a whole new generation of active citizens who believe in peace and social justice and will work for it.

I still feel that the kind of leader I want to be is one that spends time understanding our work in a way that allows me to translate it for policymakers and people who have real access to resources.

Whether people identify as feminists or not, if they're doing work that furthers a feminist cause, I think that's wonderful, like if it works for me, right, it works for the movement.