Quotes About Advocacy

When I see something unjust, I have to intervene - it's hard for me to watch the underdog suffer.

I'm tired of seeing listings of programs I want to watch that aren't closed captioned. And I'm tired of looking for the symbol on the side of the video package.

When I watched Ellen come out in '97, my jaw was on the floor. I thought, There are some people who break the doors down, hold them open, and some people who walk right through.

You would never argue about a straight girl playing a lesbian. Everybody still watched 'The L Word.' I feel like we have such great role models, like Jane Lynch and Jodie Foster and all these people that you don't even think about.

I refuse to be one of those people who watches injustices yet does nothing.

From childhood on, I did sit in the courtroom watching my father argue cases and talk to juries.

Honestly, I was watching Marvel films and was always crestfallen: Where are the super-Asians? People are looking to be represented by their heroes.

Civil and political rights are critical, but not often the real problem for the destitute sick. My patients in Haiti can now vote but they can't get medical care or clean water.

When someone is bothered by someone claiming lack of drinking water, lack of medicine for the sick, and lack of food for the hungry, that person has problems too deep to be explained in an interview.

I have generally and will always fight for clean air and safe drinking water laws.

I have always been vocal about preserving water and living a nature-friendly life.

From pink water bottles for breast cancer to dumping a bucket of ice water on your head for neuromuscular conditions, it seems we're bombarded by requests to be 'aware' of one thing or another.

I am so proud to be partnering with Waterkeepers, who are the voice for the Gulf Coast's waters.

Our commitment to our pro-life values must never waver.

I cannot be a placard waver for every campaign; that's why I have mostly kept quiet about gay marriage.

My father was my mother's greatest flag waver.

I'm just hoping that, as more black artists take control of the narratives that are out there, more opportunities will come around for artists of colour. We want to make the same waves that the white artists do.

Once we know of atrocities we cannot remain silent, and knowledge inevitably leads to an urge to protect the innocent.

Now we maintain that we cannot be afford to be concerned about 6 percent of the children in this country, black children, who you allow to come into white schools. We have 94 percent who still live in shacks. We are going to be concerned about those 94 percent.

Small use it will be to save democracy for the race if we cannot save the race for democracy.

We cannot afford to regard as normal the presence of injustice, inhumanity, and violence, including their verbal and cyber manifestations.

If we support human rights, we cannot ignore legalized brutality against any group of our global community.

We cannot just be nonracist. We really do need to be antiracist.

We live in a world where adolescents and young people, especially from key populations, are still left behind. We cannot fail to address their needs.