Naveen Patnaik Quotes

Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.

I want to be a champion for the people I have fought for all my life - regular people.

I'm trying to appeal to the disenfranchised everybody, not just specifically gay.

We are privileged. There are poor people out there. We must to do something to make them privileged.

We need more leaders speaking up for minority groups who have been marginalized and attacked.

We need someone who is going to stand up, speak up, and speak out for the people who need help, for the people who have been discriminated against.

There are people in our country, in our communities who are being marginalized and discriminated against every single day. I fight for them.

We should stand up for those who can't protect themselves. Support kids and families who can't support themselves.

I'm going to do whatever I have to do to help a New Yorker, whether it's a girl on the street or a tenant in a housing development.

I think it is important that you have people from all different vanguards, from all different walks of society and different viewpoints to be focused on the struggle for equality and democracy. We need as many champions for the cause and as many events as possible to help keep this in focus.

I want to be the voice of the people; black, white, everyday, oppressed people. A person trying to make it and to do it right.

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.

I have always felt my role was to do anything I could to enable the powerless to speak. I want America to hear these voices because they are beautiful voices.

In America, the dreamers, the disabled and the disadvantaged are not left to defend themselves, alone in their struggles.

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

Let's continue to stand up for those who are vulnerable to being left out or marginalized.

Our party’s always been the place you can come to wherever there’s injustice. That’s what the Democratic Party’s for. That’s why it was born. That’s why it survives. So the poor and the downtrodden and the bended can have a place to turn.

Advocacy is a faith commitment to be part of God's plan for a just world - a world where each person's dignity and worth is valued. A world where everyone has a say in decisions that affect their lives.

We must stand up and do everything we can for the people who do not have a voice.

We must make sure #MeToo breaks the race, class, gender, and faith lines that make it so hard for marginalized people to be heard.

I consider myself a social justice person.

I hope that a lot of the men and women who feel forgotten in this country really see that they have in me a champion.

LGBT people are some of the bravest and most potent change agents and leaders I have encountered, and the most forceful defenders of the vulnerable and voiceless, because they know what it's like to be there.

There are so many people and organisations that work quietly and diligently for the poor and the disadvantaged. We should also work with unity and purpose to ensure that the benefits of government policies reach all sections of society.

I'm always wanting and willing to be a voice for my people, a voice for the injustice.