Quotes About Advocacy

One of the things I want to do that's outside the realm of acting and the arts - although both have their place in this - is ending childhood hunger here in America.

My activism has to do with my conscience; I cannot let certain things slide without doing something. My public speaking is part of an art form that is cultural.

I teach young people how the arts can be used to stand up against injustice.

art is not advocacy and advocacy is not art.

Speaking out and creating art that truly reflects the world we live in goes part of the way towards doing that. At least that's what I hope.

Art needs to stand for something.

I think if you're going to make political art, you have to engage at some level. You can't just write about politics, you have to try and be politics as well.

Trendy intellectuals always take action for every cause that's been in fashion.

Sometimes I feel like a one man crusade against the devaluation of music in America and culture in the arts.

Ladies: Anne Hathaway is a feminist and she has amazing teeth. Let's save our bad attitudes for the ones who aren't advancing the cause.

Rape in any form is never okay, no matter who the rapist is.

I'm there to fight the good fight. To defend the people who need it and protect people from being discriminated against, or being abused by bad laws. You always have to fight the good fight

Kirk always stood up for the underdog

Victims wait for others to fight on their behalf, Alice said roughly. Those who don't want to be victims fight for themselves.

Next to the photo was a frown button that said "We denounce the Central Guatemalan Security Forces." Mae hesitated briefly, knowing the gravity of what she was about to do—to come out against these rapists and murderers—but she needed to make a stand. She pushed the button.

But now I know that I can help; I can make a difference, too. I'll stand with you; I'll shout with you, And the rest can't say, "I never knew.

I would rather be defined by what I support than what I oppose.

The trans issue is particularly interesting because it directly affects such an infinitesimally small fraction of the population. While that group of people is worthy of equality and protection, ask yourself why this topic is being relentlessly pushed so hard.

antiwar pacifists.

I mean present the best case possible using whatever facts or near facts are handy.

And if you aren't a dues paying member of a dozen NGOs, each fighting for a future you believe in, then take another look at the hypocrite in the mirror. That method is a lazy person's cheap route to bragging rights: "I'm at least doing something." Here's how.

We can't save the world without food. Only people with full stomachs become environmentalists.

no philanthropist has done more than Soros to soften America's drug laws. Soros got behind that cause in the mid-1990s, funding a new drug policy think tank and bankrolling the push for medicinal marijuana, widely seen as a bridge to legalization. Today, two decades after Soros began his push—and many tens of millions of dollars later—several states have legalized pot, and more are likely to follow.

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