Quotes About Advocacy

Planned Parenthood doesn't care about women's health care needs; it cares about abortion.

I've never personally had to use a Planned Parenthood. But I have many friends who have and do and did, and I think it's important that that access be there for everyone.

For Komen, for myself, the mission was always foremost in everyone's mind. The mission and the women that we serve. The only group that made this issue political has been Planned Parenthood.

I believe that my work extending health care to women through Planned Parenthood is something that most people will respect and do respect.

Planned Parenthood has a right to operate. Planned Parenthood has a right to provide family planning services. Planned parenthood has a right to perform abortions.

I'll be one of the spokespeople, one of the people who sells the Administration's plans.

I hope that upon this scorched earth we have planted the seeds of ideas that will bear the fruit of more diverse and inclusive stories that include people of color in the LGBT community.

One of the most crucial kinds of intervention is in advocacy. We can think about charities in the context of delivering services, and indeed that is part of their job, but advocacy is also getting governments to step up to the plate. They can also give more voice to those who don't have one.

It's incredible to be able to make an impact and use the platform that we have in the right way.

My activism always existed. My art gave me the platform to do something about the activism.

We aren't prescribing anything. We're not claiming to be the experts. We aren't advocating for or against any program. We are going to create a platform that says very explicitly what it is that teachers experience in their classrooms.

After I left the 'Daily Show,' I was kind of sitting out for five years. I know what it's like to not be able to have that platform for my voice the way I want it.

I'm the most fortunate woman in the world - I have a platform, which doesn't just reach 10 people.

Any time you have a platform or any influence, it's really important to use and make the most of it.

I have a platform to be able to do something to help other people beat cancer.

I've been blessed with a platform and a voice, and I owe it to myself and my family and our people to use it responsibly.

I'm known for being annoyingly gender-focused. It's always been my platform.

My personal cause and platform, if you like, is women's rights and women's issues.

What is the use in being a celebrity if you can't use the platform to help?

It is important that we women use our position as a platform to influence for good.

It's one of the reasons I want to do 'Dancing with the Stars': it's a platform to educate.

Beauty pageants work as a platform from where you can reach out to many.

I'm lucky because the most dangerous thing that could happen to me is that someone will say something mean on a computer screen miles away, and so I feel like if that's all that I'm facing, then why would I not use my platform to talk about things?

I chose a public platform to come out. I wanted to have an impact with it.