Zazie Beetz Quotes

I don't do the media because of 'Woo-woo, Julia Butterfly,' as I call it. I'm not into promoting me. I'm into talking about why I've done what I've done, why I continue to do this work and why other people should care.

Human rights, no matter whom they affect, are something that should matter to all of us. It's always been a part of my life.

I think it's been fun to show that Bryan and I share a Honda Fit, and we're huge environmentalists, and we're big activists for animal rights.

I don't like hypocrisy, I don't like double standards, it's probably why i'm vegan.

I think vegetarianism is a crucial ethical choice for an individual and a society.

I am certainly not allergic to causes - particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.

There's nothing I love more in life than turning around a bigot.

I've been active in animal rights and all kinds of environmental stuff and children's charities over the years.

I'm such an advocate for animal rights and environmental rights.

Musicians are so well covered in the press, it would be great to see more outspoken practitioners of green life.

Black men of integrity cannot make a deal with a politician and leave out the poor of the nation, all God's children.

I have my values. I do things that I think are right. I think it is crucial for mankind to go vegetarian. In fact, I think if the United States and one other major power becomes basically vegetarian, the whole world will become vegetarian, eventually.

I grew up in a country where the environment was very social justice-oriented.

Now, and in the future, my focus is entirely on pets and children. I'm not a person who can turn a blind eye to injustice against them.

A calling is you feel - you look out and see the need - maybe it's the need for the poor, to help poor people. Maybe it's the need to get involved in the race problem, as Martin Luther King was - felt called.

All I know for sure is that issues like race, like class, are always best approached with compassion and open-mindedness.

Leonardo DiCaprio is a rare phenomenon. Whereas for so many celebrities an interest in the environment is a fashionable accessory, for DiCaprio it is a thread that runs through everything he does.

There aren't many things that are universally cool, and it's cool not to litter. I'd never do it.

I'm not an activist; I don't look for controversy. I'm not a political person, but I'm a person with compassion. I care passionately about equal rights. I care about human rights. I care about animal rights.

I think it is incumbent on all human beings to oppose injustice in every form.

It is possible to tolerate anything as long as it only affects you. But the method of collective punishment is bigger than that.

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.

I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.

I hate writing. There are a million other things I'd rather be doing. I write because I have to. Because if I feel so strongly about what is happening to animals, and I don't do anything to help them, who will?

The teachings of Christ do not accommodate themselves to segregation and discrimination against Blacks.