Gemma Chan Quotes

I've worked with a lot of gay and lesbian organizations. I sit on the board of the Empire State Pride Agenda. I've also done a lot of work for Broadway Care/Equity Fights AIDS. I think it's important because, when we can be of service to others, it only enhances our lives. I've been helped a lot in my life.

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

My faith motivates me to really try to work on behalf of and advocate for those who are least able to advocate for themselves.

I like to give a voice to others, especially things neglected or despised.

Whenever we make it over the threshold, we have to reach back and help others.

This stand wasn't because I feel like I'm being put down in any kind of way. This is because I'm seeing things happen to people that don't have a voice: people that don't have a platform to talk and have their voices heard and affect change. So I'm in the position where I can do that, and I'm going to do that for people that can't.

I can relate to pushing yourself because you want to help and move culture toward justice.

I don't want to be the only one speaking up for the refugees. I get all these comments from people saying, 'Thanks so much for your courage,' and, 'You're the only one who's spoken out.' But I don't want to be the only one speaking up.

It is important to me to keep fighting for the rights of those who cannot.

We want to let people know that we can build solidarity with suffering folks so that they are not excluded, they are integrated.

I'm marching for women; I'm marching for the LGBT community. I'm marching for immigrants. I happen to fall into all three categories, so I'm marching for myself at the end of the day and for my family and my friends. And for whoever else deserves it.

My family are so proud of me for standing up for marginalised people in nerd communities.

If I have a platform and a voice, I should use it for my people.

We have that responsibility to look out for those who haven't had the road and the success that we have.

I am passionate about human rights.

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

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.

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.

To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.

I know for certain people I'm championing a struggle that they're going through.

I want to speak for people that may not feel like they're being spoken for at the moment. And I want to make a connection between the world around us and the charts.

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 prophetic and take stands and stand with those on the margins, and I want to laugh as much as I can.

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.

As straight Americans we have two choices: we can choose to sit back and enjoy our rights as we have them, or we can realize that it is actually not freedom at all when our friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues do not share these basic rights.