Quotes About Awareness

When Black Lives Matter started, it was polarizing.

On 15 July 2007, I swam across an open patch of sea at the North Pole to highlight the melting of the Arctic sea ice.

Police brutality is definitely still very alive and active.

I know what it means to be stopped by police. I've been stopped by police a lot.

The whole reason behind my album 'Free TC' is seeing all that police brutality, injustice, mass incarceration.

I watch people around me not drinking any water all day, and I turn into the water police. I'm constantly asking, 'Are you drinking water?' Being dehydrated very quickly affects my energy.

The danger to a black child in America is not a white police officer. The danger is another black.

If I see a police officer behind me, and I can pull over into, like, a shopping center or something, I do it.

Also, people are not often aware of the way the United States' policies influence what happens in places like Haiti or El Salvador or Nicaragua. Or in Columbia right now.

One of the things polio does is it takes away your energy. They don't know very much about it. They should be a lot more aware of what polio is.

Throughout my football career, I've always been somebody who's been very aware, and I know when the camera is on me, and I know how to be polished. I can see how that might come off as disingenuous.

Be aware of who in your life is actually interested in hearing you discuss your writing, and who's just asking to be polite. Listening to writers talk about their work is often excruciatingly dull.

I want to start thinking about other people and the political climate. I can't sit here and write an album about myself. It just feels wrong.

Like wealth, or health, political freedom may simply be something that people don't value if they've always had it.

But the issue of sexual harassment is not the end of it. There are other issues - political issues, gender issues - that people need to be educated about.

One of the top political issues of the day is how to combat young people not being active anymore.

Me talking about political issues on a social platform was kind of an accident. It's something that's a part of my everyday - it's super central to who I am as a person.

Through the years, I had became involved with social and political issues, such as racial discrimination.

Weve always been encouraged to talk about political issues. Weve been taught to look outside of our own lives. Ive always had that fire in my belly.

It's crazy that we happen to have a country where it depends on what political party you are in whether you believe in climate change or not.

I try to do stories that make a difference - stories that affect the way people think, stories that people need to hear - and usually what drives me is to do stories about people who have no voice, people who have no political power, people who are overlooked by society.

There are many young Americans that are very distant from our political process.

We need to take back control of our political process. We know so much more about what Brexit will mean, and the health implications, especially for those who are already in a disadvantaged position.

I had to be - I was in school for probably three or four years before I began taking courses in history and political science, and I just started to realize how big the world was. I mean, when I arrived in college, I didn't know anything.