Booboo Stewart Quotes

One of my main jobs is to cultivate advocates and activists.

I don't often get involved with campaigns at all.

It's very important that people who are feeling the need to do something... get activated.

The electronic media introduced this idea to the larger audience very, very quickly. We spent years and years and years meeting with activists all over Europe to lay the groundwork for a political response, as we did here.

I value public service and I'm relatively good at organizing political causes.

I was always interested in social change but never actually did anything about it.

I know I could make a difference by supporting the right causes.

Advocacy: Advocacy for America

When I was 12 years old, I got involved with an organization called Artists for a New South Africa. One of its missions is to help with HIV/AIDS awareness.

The organizer dedicated to changing the life of a particular community must first rub raw the resentments of the people of the community.

I'm talking to friends so we can do something to create awareness to try to help children in Africa.

Public service and community organizing and movement building is such a part of my DNA that it's really hard to separate it.

With any minority group, it takes a strong presence in the public eye to make a change because everything nowadays is social media.

I just want to recognize, the HIV epidemic was solved by the community, the HIV advocates and activists who stood up when no one was listening and got everyone's attention.

Publicity, discussion, and agitation are necessary to accomplish any work of lasting benefit.

You have so much power to bring awareness, prevention and change.

The rhythm of being an activist today involves a pretty simple rhythm. You have to open your eyes to the reality before you. You have to look and see.

People on a spiritual path - personal growth, spiritual practice, recovery, yoga and so forth - are the last people who should be sitting out the social and political issues of our day. And there’s an important reason for this: People on such journeys are adepts at change. They know that the mechanics of the heart and mind are the fundamental drivers of transformation.

I am so profoundly aware of my lack of skill to make any material difference. I am not a doctor. I can't influence foreign policy. I can't build schools. I can't chemically engineer the protein paste that helps people with acute malnutrition. But I can talk about it, and so can you.

What I always wanted to do when I was a kid was to speak out and help people which I continue to do afterwards.

You can make the case that slacktivism is important because it makes people feel affiliated to a movement and be part of it, and talk about it.

I often tell people I don't care whether they join the NAACP or some other group, but you better join something.

Even though I'm not running anymore, we still have to try to find a cure for cancer. Other people should go ahead and try to do their own thing now.

It's really important to me to promote worthy causes. But not in a heavy, obligatory, responsibility way. I really admired that as a kid, learning about the 'Elton John AIDS Foundation.' And I was obsessed with The Indigo Girls. And they are the consummate activist group, always reaching out, especially to Native causes and things like that.

It's important to be active in the causes that are important to you... That's how we make changes in this world.