Quotes About Advocacy

I was an activist long before I even entertained the possibility of being an actor.

Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. This is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.

You have to take positions on bills. There is no button for maybe or possibly.

You can put up a post on social media, and people will support you.

I want to be the poster girl for engineers and computer nerds.

I realize I will always be the poster child for police brutality, but I can try to use that as a positive force for healing and restraint.

I did not want to become a poster child for yet another disease.

I don't want to be a poster child for cancer.

I should be a poster child for CTE.

I'm not a poster boy for Conservation International. I'm a working member of the board.

Just because you are out doesn't make you the poster boy for the gay community.

It's important to do anything you can to support the causes that you care about. I think something as small as posting articles on social media or having important conversations with your friends are ways of getting your voice out there!

I'm really into architecture, I'm a member of the Brutalist Appreciation Society; I'm a member of the Postmodern Society. I write letters to save buildings.

Politics is a potent way to empower women.

After 'An Inconvenient Truth' came out, a lot of people came to me with their causes, and there are a lot - water, poverty, and so many, many more.

I fight for the environment because we only have one planet, but I see how the environment affects poverty and how the environment affects women around the world.

Collectively, we activists are essential to advancing U.S. policy to help empower marginalized people to lift themselves and their communities out of poverty for good.

We work closely with a number of powerful organizations, including Christina Applegate's Right Action for Women.

I'm not Gloria Steinem, but I mean, I'm definitely all for powerful women.

Having an understanding of what's possible also makes me redouble my efforts to fight those who stand in the way of doing the things that my constituents and the country would want to get done.

But as for activism, my parents did what they could, given the constraints, but were never involved in the causes I think of when I think of activists.

That's the thing about us lawyers - if at all possible, we will consume each other.

We consumers have to send a message every day of what we want and what we don't.

I want to protect consumers from their government.