Quotes About Advocacy

I never get involved in policy. Never.

What I want is the general betterment of pets. No-kill is a part of that. I'd like to see that policy enacted at all SPCA-type organizations around the country.

Children have in the past and continue to influence policy makers.

I support allowing homosexuals to serve openly in our military and eliminating the 'don't ask, don't tell' policy.

Women have learned to flex their political muscles. You got to flex that muscle to get what you want.

I will continue to help the political causes I believe in in any way I can.

I am a political animal.

My feet are firmly planted in my political ideology. To me, it's being authentic in every area, and that includes politics.

But the issue of sexual harassment is not the end of it. There are other issues - political issues, gender issues - that people need to be educated about.

I know what it's like to lose your home. I know what it's like to be hungry. I know what it's like to lose a family member because of a lack of health care. So all of these things aren't just political issues for me. All of these things are personal to me.

Me talking about political issues on a social platform was kind of an accident. It's something that's a part of my everyday - it's super central to who I am as a person.

Through the years, I had became involved with social and political issues, such as racial discrimination.

Weve always been encouraged to talk about political issues. Weve been taught to look outside of our own lives. Ive always had that fire in my belly.

Here, I am looking for a document issued by a public attorney. I don't find. He is accused by the political leaders of the coalition, by his enemies, who said that he is guilty. That he deserves to be killed.

Women's rights was thought of as a Western concept. Now people do talk about women's rights - political parties talk about it, even religious parties talk about it.

I try to do stories that make a difference - stories that affect the way people think, stories that people need to hear - and usually what drives me is to do stories about people who have no voice, people who have no political power, people who are overlooked by society.

In my work as an actress and an activist, I've spent many years working with low income communities and people of color who don't always have a voice in our political process.

I am committed to growing participation in the political process and doing it the right way.

We have to become involved in the political process - if we don't like it, we can change it.

Through my political work in D.C., and having done 'Milk' I got to know a lot of gay octogenarians. They are lovely and they like to tell their stories, and I like hearing them.

You wouldn't expect ABC or any of the mainstream networks to take a position on immigration, health care, anything. But at Univision, it's different. We are pro-immigrant. That's our audience, and people depend on us. When we are better represented politically, that role for us will recede.

I got more and more politically active and just followed the course of feminism and sexual liberation.

It's important for me, politically, to see that theater isn't just about the powerful.

I'm very politically active, but that has nothing to do with my charity.