Drew Pinsky Quotes

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 not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.

I think I will always have a connection to young people, to try to bring their voices to the polls, bring their voices wherever they can make a difference.

Until everyone knows someone who has died of AIDS this prejudice and discrimination will continue.

Those still in school and colleges have no business having access to condoms. I am not in favor of condoms.

I want our millennials and our young people to do what they started out doing with meet-ups, to talk about what is going on, and spread the education.

I had never thought of hosting, but a really good friend of mine said, 'This is the most empowered platform to speak to young people about the issues that you care about, which is why you're in this in the first place.' So I was like, 'Yeah, no, it makes perfect sense.' And so that's what I started doing.

When I started out, no one would talk to young people about HIV or AIDS. I looked around and radio looked like a powerful way to shape culture in a healthy way.

I am trying to change the world.

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.

'Longtime Companion' was really the first movie that I know of that addressed the problem of AIDS. This was back in the '80s that we did this.

We moan and groan all the time about a lack of involvement of young people. But they have taught me a lot about what moves them.

Let the grassroots turn on the hate because that's the only thing that will make them do their duty.

I grew up hearing stories about my grandmother - my mother's mother - who used to go to villages in India in her little VW bug. My grandmother would take a bullhorn and make sure women in these villages knew how to access birth control.

I need to get a tiny bit more 'woke.'

I really enjoy watching TV; it offers an amazing window, and its an incredible way of presenting history to young people in particular.

I feel like my role is to be one of those voices who reaches the youth.

The vast majority of young people in Britain are law-abiding citizens making important contributions to their communities.

To see that I have this huge platform now, and so many people are listening to what I have to say, it really makes me want to orientate toward something that would really educate people, create awareness, do something more than just show them a cute outfit or what I'm having for lunch.

I'm not one to go down that road to say I have some kind of social consciousness.

I was one of the first ones to participate in fundraisers for AIDS.

The arrogant view that young people don't count because they don't vote has thankfully been smashed for ever.

I grew up around politics. I organized my first campaign when I was 14, a walk-out in my high school to protest the year-round school schedule.

Becoming a campaign representative for the somewhereto_ re:store campaign was a simple choice.

Honestly, I'm not a big activism or politic guy. I wouldn't say I'm super educated in that stuff, and I feel like I shouldn't speak on things that I don't understand too much.