Adwoa Aboah Quotes

I want to make films that make a difference. I want to be out and hope that that will make things better for gay people and for myself. I hope one day I can start to make the kind of projects or be involved with kind of projects that can really make a difference.

My involvement in the political arena is to make sure there's a place for culture.

There isn't much point in the whole 'celebrity' nonsense unless one is prepared to go out on a limb and, one hopes, speak up for some under-represented section of the community.

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.

I use my platform as a tool and a way to speak about greater change.

LGBT people are some of the bravest and most potent change agents and leaders I have encountered, and the most forceful defenders of the vulnerable and voiceless, because they know what it's like to be there.

I'm known as a voice for a generation of people that don't have a voice.

The activism of marginalized people often comes with visibility and being heard. Which can lead people to believe that recognition and awareness is the actual end point. And it is not.

Representation makes a difference.

I'm getting to use my platform as the Bachelorette - on my season - to really make change through my experience.

I want to represent Asian women.

Instead of going to a GLAAD event and standing on a soapbox, I am writing roles that I feel will change the narrative and open doors.

I've been given this amazing platform as an Olympic athlete, and there are so many people out there who don't feel like their voice is being heard. I feel it's my responsibility to speak out on issues that are important.

I'm very grateful for the platform that I've had in my life to speak out about the things I care about.

When the men are silent, it is our duty to raise our voices in behalf of our ideals.

To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.

I think it is important that you have people from all different vanguards, from all different walks of society and different viewpoints to be focused on the struggle for equality and democracy. We need as many champions for the cause and as many events as possible to help keep this in focus.

Collectively, we activists are essential to advancing U.S. policy to help empower marginalized people to lift themselves and their communities out of poverty for good.

I've been a very effective leader in the gay rights movement, though at times I've been controversial.

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.

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

Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far.

I've not given the poor people of Bihar heaven, but I have given them a voice.

Everything hinges on education. Without it, you can't advocate for proper health care, for housing, for a civil rights bill that ensures your rights.

So many minority youths had volunteered...that there was literally no room for patriotic folks like myself