Quotes About Advocacy

There are two or three ways to combat homophobia - one is through humor. The second is to put a face on it.

I think it's very important that we don't sound like militants. Often what we do is we give a comment, and because it comes across with passion, then we're 'angry black people.'

I wouldn't want to be the guy who went out and won a championship in a horrible year but never made a comment on the issues that we are dealing with in our society.

That's my achievement actually - when a mother says that she didn't marry off her 14-year-old daughter because of me, or when a woman tells me that she continued to study after watching my dramas - those comments mean a lot.

There have been moments when comments have been made and because I'm strong enough to speak up about it, it's helped me. Having the strength and confidence to speak up about racism is what matters. Some people don't realise that what they are saying is wrong - they think it's acceptable.

You have to be committed to expand rights and opportunities for all women.

I am a very committed European.

Being a mayor was an awesome, difficult job. Being the chair of the Armed Services Committee was perhaps the most incredible time in my life, because I got up one morning, and the peacenik from Berkeley was chair of the Armed Services Committee, and it was the greatest - one of the great challenges of my life.

I always want to represent the common man.

Congress is a party whose both hands are with the common people.

I have deep compassion and support for Bruce Jenner.

As a human being, when I see things going on in my community, I feel compelled to do something, to say something.

I feel it's part of my job to make the problems of the poor compelling.

I'm the benefactor of people who are doing so much hard work championing women composers.

I don't care if you will get angry with me, but I am not open to a compromise. Contractualization must go. It is anti-people.

I've changed my will to show my concern for animal rights.

Protesters have no concern with problems of the people.

Shiv Sena is taking on the government for people's issues and not for self- interest. We will continue to fight with the government on the issues concerning common people.

I am an artist with very strong social and political concerns.

When it comes to my industry, I will always be there to voice our concerns.

I believe in my work and advocate for my conclusions.

We condemn any kind of abuse of Muslim women or women anywhere in the world.

Women's empowerment for me means knowing your rights, having the facts, knowing the truth about what is happening out there, here in our own country and the condition of women throughout the world.

I do not condone the use of violence.