Quotes About Advocacy

I am a huge believer in organized labor. Period. Full stop.

I'm an educator. I'm an organizer.

I am not a hoodlum. I'm a community organizer.

There is no law for farm labor organizing, save the law of the jungle.

I have my chops in organizing, and I know how to create political space through movement building.

When I was in high school, I started organizing fundraisers and other events for people like PETA and Greenpeace.

We will continue to organize. You have seen consistent organizing since the Women's March on Washington in every corner of this country.

From day one, I have always been open about my sexual orientation.

I don't see how you can separate human rights and the rights of all people, no matter what their sexual orientation is.

I wouldn't want anyone to tell me that I couldn't marry the person I loved, and I don't want to do that to anyone else regardless of sexual orientation.

The federal government has no business in restricting basic human rights based on sexual orientation, and I am ready to protect equality at every turn in Congress.

I will do everything in my power to ensure our country is a place where everyone, whatever their gender identity or sexual orientation, can be themselves and live their lives with dignity and respect.

I'm a very philanthropically oriented individual. There are a lot of causes that I support, and I'm a big fan of advocacy.

I began working with the John Muir Institute and then started helping found Friends of the Earth organizations here and there in other countries. That pretty well brings us up to the present.

My only agenda is to bring attention to otherwise ignored and shunned lives.

Even as the leader of the party, my first duty always is to the people who elected me, my first duty always is going to be to represent the people of this riding in Ottawa.

I couldn't do that as attorney general. Why? Because they are my clients. You can't say they're not doing what they ought to be doing when you are the attorney general.

Women, nowhere in the world, have the kind of important position in society in the amount that they ought to have.

When Donald Trump comes after any part of our community, he'll find 419,000 Minneapolitans and me standing squarely in his way. That's the kind of wall I can support.

If I am elected to Congress, I will put the interests of our community first, and I will actively seek input and respond to it.

I will always be a voice of reason for our community, our state and our nation.

We believe that with our music, we should be saying exactly what we think. We want to speak up for people who don't have a voice. That's what our music does.

For those of you that don't know, the reason I named my album 'Free TC' is because my lil' brother is named TC. He's locked up for something that he didn't do, and what I'm trying to do is just raise awareness around the whole mass incarceration thing going on in our country, especially with our people.

It's our time to fight for the America we know we can have.