Ellen DeGeneres Quotes

Being a humanitarian, supporting animal rights activists, human rights activists, it's all the same.

I've always been passionate about human rights in general. I think anyone who knows me can attest to that.

I care passionately about equal rights [and] animal rights.

My mother, for the last 20 years anyway, would not call herself a Marxist but a human rights activist.

Whatever I do, it will be fighting for social justice.

I am passionate about human rights.

I grew up in Sydney in a very political household, where we were all for the underdog.

I have lectured at the U.N. and travelled widely, giving lectures on human rights and gender inequalities in universities. But this is a life I do not wish to live. I don't want to be a showcase, I want to be in a battlefield where I can stand beside the oppressed and the poor.

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.

To throw oneself to the side of the oppressed is the only dignified thing to do in life.

Without public pressure from caring people, our lawsuits will not be enough to stop this widespread abuse.

Let's resolve to never be a bystander in the fight for human dignity

I believe in the Corporal Works of Mercy, the Ten Commandments, the American Declaration of Independence and James Connolly’s outline of a socialist society… Most of my life I’ve been called a lunatic because I believe that I am my brother’s keeper. I organize poor and exploited workers, I fight for the civil rights of minorities, and I believe in peace. It appears to have become old-fashioned to make social commitments — to want a world free of war, poverty and disease. This is my religion

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

Maybe it's because my uncle and my parents were always very involved with the civil rights movement, so I just grew up and I was raised that you have to speak out and look out for your fellow man, woman, and child.

You can only appreciate freedom when you find yourself in a position to fight for someone else's freedom and not worry about your own.

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.

I'm an activist and advocate. I have empathy. It is hard to ignore causes.

I think the reason I've been so committed to advocacy is because I see so many people in pain.

I count myself as a feminist. I'm a vegan, so I believe in animal rights. I stand behind the Black Lives Matter here in the US. I want to help wherever I can.

I think of myself as a human-rights advocate and as a mother.

While women weep, as they do now, I'll fight While little children go hungry, as they do now, I'll fight While men go to prison, in and out, in and out, as they do now, I'll fight While there is a drunkard left, While there is a poor lost girl upon the streets, While there remains one dark soul without the light of God, I'll fight-I'll fight to the very end!

It is not only our right as members of the global human family to protest when our brothers and sisters are being treated brutally, but it is also our duty to do whatever we can to hep them.

The condition of truth, is to allow suffering to speak. Which means attend to suffering of the least of these, of the orphan, the widow, the poor, the working people, the gay brother, the lesbian sister, the transgender, the black people.

If you choose to use your status and influence to raise your voice on behalf of those who have no voice; if you choose to identify not only with the powerful, but with the powerless; if you retain the ability to imagine yourself into the lives of those who do not have your advantages, then it will not only be your proud families who celebrate your existence, but thousands and millions of people whose reality you have helped transform for the better. We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.