Quotes About Advocacy

No estoy de acuerdo. Hay que luchar contra todas las injusticias. —¿Querés más injusticia que vos y yo hablando día y noche del suicidio? —Pero nosotras somos intelectuales.

I feel sympathy for the working class lad. I've always championed about ticket prices and try to equate that to people's salaries.

It is a sound and important principle that the representative ought to be acquainted with the interests and circumstances of his constituents.

Incumbent Congresswoman Bustos has proven during her time in Washington that she doesn't understand or feel the pain of middle class families. We need a true representative fighting for us in Washington, and incumbent Congresswoman Cheri Bustos has refused to act.

Du Bois marked a great stage in the history of Negro struggles when he said that Negroes could no longer accept the subordination which Booker T. Washington had preached.

My priority always has and will continue to be the people of Staten Island and Brooklyn who sent me to Congress to represent them. Their interests come before Washington, always.

I went to a bunch of marches in New York and Washington, and you know I believe in the cause, but to march with those people takes a lot of compromise on my end.

In the end, we may be hurting the very people we should be concerned about - the inner-city poor, those who already have to live with many risks in their daily lives, those who do not have clout here in Washington.

In subsequent years the groups you named had important roles in educating people about the real issues in Washington and Raleigh, and within the Democratic Party.

If Washington is a two-party town, why can't Hollywood be one too?

We'll have to marshal our forces in Washington. It won't be easy. That doesn't mean it can't be done.

I had a 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' experience as governor.

I'm not going to take any special interest money or any PAC money... when I get to Washington I want to be the voice for the people of Connecticut and not owe special favors.

There still is a war on women in terms of politicians in Washington and the state legislatures trying to eliminate any rights we have fought to win and that the Supreme Court has afforded us.

I don't want anybody between a doctor and a patient - not an insurance company bureaucrat or a Washington bureaucrat.

You need fighters like me to battle, because frankly The New York Times and the Washington Post are not going to fight the fights that I do.

Before running for the Washington State Senate in 2014, I had spent 20 years as an activist. I had always believed that we needed to push for change on the outside, through community organizing and advocacy.

When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.

I will not vote for a candidate who thinks you can 'pray away the gay;' I will not vote for a candidate who thinks that he has more rights to my uterus than I do; I will not vote for a candidate who thinks that it's okay to dump toxic waste in the ocean.

I would suggest that folks who have a platform of so-called celebrity, to the extent that they don't use that platform, or if they just use it for their own self-aggrandizement, it is certainly fed in a way that it goes to waste.

There's this terrific kid in Maine who saw all the waste generated by straws handed out in restaurants. So he made up these little pop-up cards and asked restaurant owners put them on the tables to explain why straws wouldn't be handed out unless requested. Of course, the restaurant owners couldn't resist a 9-year-old kid, and so it worked.

On the Sandy bill, I did the best I could on waste, fraud and abuse, and then when the final bill comes, you don't say, 'Hell, no' because you didn't get everything you want in there.

Activism is wasteful.

My task as a citizen is to get the government to do more good and less inefficient and wasteful work.