Quotes About Advocacy

I think it's great that we have organisations like Greenpeace. In a pluralistic society, we want to have people who point out all the problems that the Earth could encounter. But we need to understand that they are not presenting a full and rounded view.

Presenting myself and my gender is about my right to exist.

The greatest advantage of being First Lady is the opportunity it presents to truly make a difference on issues of great importance.

On a daily basis, I think it's really important to be conscious of gender-based discrimination - which presents in sometimes more, but often less, obvious forms - and do everything possible to defeat that discrimination.

We have to give feminism a shot. Out of sheer self preservation, we have to stand aside and let women run the show.

Sometimes when you're defending people, you have to admit there was something that's not quite right, and that preserves some credibility.

It's very important that the issues that Bernie is talking about are carried forward and he is intending to do that. Winning the presidency is not enough.

President Biden should put Americans First.

I'm overall a big fan of President Obama.

I believe in President Obama.

Mexico doesn't know whether it should pay more attention to those who advocate militarizing the border or to those - like President Obama - who have come out against it.

New Mexicans want a Governor who will continue to fight and hold President Trump accountable for policies that hurt New Mexicans and hard-working families.

Joe Biden cannot leave the lives of those on death row in the hands of future presidents. If he truly opposes the death penalty, he must do everything in his power to stop it for good.

In every era going back to Lincoln with Frederick Douglass, presidents talk to those that were leading at that time.

I condemn the national gay press for its emphasis on consumerism.

I am done being polite. I am done being politically correct. I am mad as hell, so I am asking the members of the press to send a mayday call all over the world.

I'm not afraid of the press or the Militia.

I never used the press for anything except my charity.

The Weinstein story and the way it has shaken the roots of Hollywood has made apparent the fact that, across the world, there is a pressing need to recognize and correct the circumstances women subsist in, in order to move forward.

I don't want to pretend that I am a little David Suzuki, because I am not. I'm really different. I have different issues. I'm more interested in the social aspect of environmental issues.

I'm not pretending I can change the world, or to be an expert on social and political affairs. But I certainly have a right to say when something is wrong.

I've run my mouth pretty good about my beliefs.

I would love for dancers to be treated better and for dancers to have support, for dancers to have managers, agents. This is the only art form that does not have a proper support system.

What rights are those that dare not resist for them?