Ann Curry Quotes

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.

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

My writing is often a way of 'bearing witness' for others who lack the education and the opportunity to tell their own stories, so I hope that my writing won't be affected too much by my personal life.

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

Speak up for the people that nobody speaks for.

Create power for the powerless.

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

Ted Kennedy’s life’s work was not to champion those with wealth or power or special connections. It was to give a voice to those who were not heard, to add a rung to the ladder of opportunity, to make real the dream of our founding.

One of the things we try to do on 'The Fosters' is shine a light on the problems and the people that get pushed to the periphery. From the very beginning of the show, when we told people we were putting foster care at the center of a TV show, even the people who work in the system were afraid.

I am passionate about human rights.

I'm not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.

Collective freedom provides the basic conditions for people to narrate their own lives, hold power accountable, and embrace a capacious notion of human dignity.

Yooralla, like most disability service organisations, is full of good people who are passionate about the rights of people with disabilities.

My only agenda is to bring attention to otherwise ignored and shunned lives.

I am convening the African Leaders Forum on Disability in partnership with Special Olympics so that a marginalized population long unrecognized does not remain in the shadows. I consider this a critical, moral and practical challenge.

We have to improve life, not just for those who have the most skills and those who know how to manipulate the system. But also for and with those who often have so much to give but never get the opportunity.

We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.

I feel a real sense of duty to use the voice and the platform I've been afforded by my fame to speak out for those whose voices don't get a chance to be heard.

In any human-rights campaign, everybody must do what they can.

At the end of the day, what I have is the power to give a louder voice to people who have issues, questions and problems.

Societies should be judged by how they treat the weakest among them.

We need leaders who will stand up for the little guy and listen once again.

I think the biggest problem of the 21st century is how to deal with minorities.

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

In creating my YouTube videos, I don't want to speak for my audience and the people I represent; I want to amplify their voices.