Quotes About Engagement

We can all become activists and raise questions.

If I can raise attention to a cause, I will.

I go into military communities and do fundraisers and that kind of thing with the band, because I know that the music can help do a lot of things. It can bring communities together, it can raise awareness... and it entertains.

I was raised to believe that we all have a civic duty and a responsibility as Americans to improve our neighborhoods and our nation.

Here's what I've learned about raising boys... if you keep 'em busy, they're fine. You let 'em get bored, they'll dismantle your house board by board.

You know in democracy you can protest peacefully and I'm sure you know it will have at least some kind of impact. You need to raise your voice. If you can't do much, you know, but at least raise you voice. Raising your voice is something you need to do.

It's always about finding the right balance between answering some questions and raising new ones to keep your story going.

Raising awareness for Nepal was and still is an important role for me.

Raising your hand when you're not sure you have the right answer helps you take risks with your ideas and put yourself out there.

Communicating a passionate response to world events is no longer limited to protests and rallies.

You can watch Chanel fashion shows and watch the news. Fortunately you don't have to choose. I always vote, I go to rallies, but I also go to fashion shows.

Rallies, marches on Washington, protests, et al. are pointless if there is no action to make them mean something.

My parents always went to rallies and demonstrated against certain things; my generation, we often have a political conscience, but we're not that involved.

I've found that when everyone rallies behind a cause, and when they learn their effort can contribute something bigger, they get engaged.

It is important to show up. Showing up at marches and rallies and town halls and protests.

I have addressed public meetings. I have done rallies and road shows. I have gone door-to-door for leaders like Kapil Sibal ji.

My father acted as the Illinois Branch president of the NAACP and so we spent a lot of time in the marches and the rallies working on behalf of people of color.

I was pulled out of school for every moratorium day and every rally for a left-wing candidate... from Ed Koch in his heyday to Eugene McCarthy. That's the culture that I came from.

Being in service and being involved in something that is greater than you is what makes a person complete and whole. The very first thing I ever did in terms of activism was for an anti-atom bomb rally.

Try to rally up as many people as you can with as much information as you can to try to get it to appear in front of the right people in the organization who are the decision-makers to greenlight the project.

I gotta be involved. I still write ads; I still run around and rally the creative people.

My earliest political memory is of attending, in 1975, a tub-thumping campaign rally with my father in Adelaide.

Every time I go to a march or a rally, and I post it on Instagram, people will go, 'I'm going to unfollow you!' And I'm like, 'I used to play arenas. I've lost a lot of fans. I'm fine with that. I've had people unfollowing me for years. You're way behind the times.'

People can't go into the street endlessly. My friends get asked why aren't they going to the next protest? They answer, 'Because we're tired of being thousands. I'm ready to become the 100,000th person at a rally, but I don't want to be the 10,000th. Because it's pointless.'