Quotes About Representation

We have to ensure that everybody's voice is heard equally, or nobody's will be.

People choose whatever projects they've seen that I've done over the years, and whichever one is their favorite is the only one they care about. But I realized that none of those were my voice or representative of what my thoughts and feelings were.

Somebody has always wanted me to speak as a voice of black America, but it has dawned on me that I can only speak for myself.

From our nation's founding to the Civil Rights movement, Virginians have always stood up to fight for their most foundational right - a voice in our government.

It's all about representing the forgotten men and women, to make sure that they have a voice and members of the Freedom Caucus take that very seriously.

I think that having a platform and having a voice to be seen by people beyond the classical ballet world has really been my power, I feel.

I know there are a lot of people out there who have the best intentions but not the voice, so it's about people like me to give them a voice and hear their ideas.

I do not want the voice of the people shut out.

Everyone's voice should be heard when it comes to racial barriers.

Your voice is your tool and represents you. It's very important to have a good voice where you can be understood.

If I'm elected president, I'll make people's voice the foundation of policymaking.

Canadians want to elect good people to be their voice in Ottawa.

I'm here to play certain characters and give them a voice that they might not have had. That's my job, and like it or not, that's what I'm here to do.

I didn't enter Miss S.A. because I thought I was the most beautiful woman in S.A., I entered because it's one of the few platforms that give women the ability to lead and I knew I had a powerful voice and message to send out.

I think for a while magazines were using celebrities and it's really coming back to the age of the supermodel and models having a name and having a voice and it's refreshing.

The great thing about social media was how it gave a voice to voiceless people.

My father was a politician. My grandfather was a politician too, maybe it's an innate idea of representing people that we have in our family. I won't go into politics. I think I can provide the voice for the voiceless through law.

I love the power of celebrity because you can give voice to the voiceless.

From the beginning of my time as Secretary-General, I have sought to advance a practical, action-oriented vision of the U.N. as the voice of the voiceless and the defender of the defenceless.

If people of colour do not exercise their democratic right to vote, they will remain an invisible, voiceless, and largely ignored part of the electorate.

My self-imposed mandate is to be the voice for the voiceless.

If it was all about me, I'd do a whole lot of pop records, make a whole lot of money, just rake in the dough. But it's never been all about me. It's all about being a voice for the voiceless. People who can't speak for themselves, who don't have a mic, don't have a say.

Our party has always been the voice of the powerless and the voiceless.

I like movies that resonate, that give voice to the voiceless.