Quotes About Advocacy

I'm a person who's always been politically active and passionate about people's rights.

I'd been politically active ever since my parents wheeled me in a stroller in a 'ban the bomb' march in Boston in 1963.

My European constituents are among the most politically engaged people I represent.

I believe that a politician needs to be with people.

I would be an activist but never a politician. As an activist, nobody owns you.

I am the people's politician. If the day should ever come when the people can't save me, I'll know I'm finished.

I'm not a politician or political animal.

I am not a politician or a military strategist. I am just a citizen voicing my opinions.

You should not want to be a politician because you want to be president. You should be a politician because you want to fix the world or represent a movement.

I'm not a politician. I'm somebody who knows the world can be better, and I'm willing to fight for it.

I'm really not a politician: I don't have a political background, though I've been an activist fighting for my community for years. So I had to learn a lot about my government.

Politicians have to be committed to people in equal measures.

I'm more interested in politicians who deal with human rights in their own country rather than lecture the rest of the world.

Nowadays, people in the entertainment industry can have a louder voice than politicians, and I think it's important that they use that voice to say something positive or to give a voice to somebody that's had theirs taken away.

I don't have a passion for politics, but I do have a passion for truth and justice.

The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed.

I was determined to become a criminal lawyer and help look after the poor.

We are not Marxist or capitalist; we are for the poor people.

I believe in the Democratic party, and their philosophy and what they stand for - for the poor people.

There's more poor people in this country than there are rich, and I stick up for the poor people.

I have bigger concerns than what pop stars are doing. I'm more concerned about our environment, what industrialists are doing to it.

I think that because we have these big female pop stars, people forget that women and marginalized people are so underrepresented in this business.

If the Pope plans to spend the majority of his time advocating for flawed climate change policies, then I will not attend.

I have popular support.