Quotes About Advocacy

Doctors have limited time to listen to your story, but you must make sure they understand why you're there. Don't just say that you have chest pain - explain when it started, what you were doing, and how it felt. Write down key elements. Practice until you can tell it in 30 seconds or less.

Access Living is a powerful voice for people in the Chicago area who live with disabilities.

When people ask me why I am running as a woman, I always answer, 'What choice do I have?'

I cannot support a measure that chooses to protect some women and not others.

When you have a platform and people listen, it's very important what you chose to say.

I'm against cigarettes, always.

My goal as a citizen is to do what I can to help the causes that I personally believe in.

You must be an artist and a citizen of the world. You must speak to this stuff that's happening. You must do what you can to shine a light on it, help people through it.

I do feel, in a sense, the rules of engagement for citizenship has changed, and we must encourage other people to speak up and to take action.

Black women care deeply about civic engagement, democracy, education, children, and justice.

The civil rights fight was a very important fight.

In the view of some people, you can only believe in civil rights if you work as a civil rights lawyer. I just don't buy that.

Civil rights cases are hard to win.

To me, I know that if we could pass the Civil Rights Act of '64 over 50 years ago, then we can pass Justice for All Civil Rights Act. We can pass Medicare for All.

I was part of the peace movement and part of the civil rights movement. You know what we heard? 'The majority of people don't support you.'

I claim the right to take a stand once in a while.

To meet someone who wants to fight to just tell the truth about what's happening in government... this is a real life superhero right here.

Just because there's one Asian American superhero in the MCU, it does not by any means imply that our fight is finished right there.

The whole point of Superman, as originally created, was to be the ally of those who had no other allies. It put that magnitude of power, the most powerful guy in the world, in the service of those who had no hope, no chance.

We are not a TV station that only concentrate on those who are always under light. We are not a TV station for celebrities and for grand politicians and superstars. We are a TV station for the ordinary person. The normal people, ordinary people in the Arab world sees Al Jazeera as their voice.

Companies need to be very active in formulating public policy - not as a substitute for government, but as a supplement.

Business has to stand up on behalf of its employees, on behalf of immigration, on behalf of its customers, and on behalf of supply chain-cum-globalization.

India has no shortage of deserving causes or good leaders; there is only short supply of activists and people who are willing to support their causes.

I'm sorry I'm not gay or Jewish, so I don't have a special interest group of journalists that support me.