Dionne Warwick Quotes

If it was all about me, I'd do a whole lot of pop records, make a whole lot of money, just rake in the dough. But it's never been all about me. It's all about being a voice for the voiceless. People who can't speak for themselves, who don't have a mic, don't have a say.

I have always felt my role was to do anything I could to enable the powerless to speak. I want America to hear these voices because they are beautiful voices.

I'm always wanting and willing to be a voice for my people, a voice for the injustice.

I want to speak for people who can't speak; they're afraid to speak.

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

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

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

This stand wasn't because I feel like I'm being put down in any kind of way. This is because I'm seeing things happen to people that don't have a voice: people that don't have a platform to talk and have their voices heard and affect change. So I'm in the position where I can do that, and I'm going to do that for people that can't.

I consider myself a social justice person.

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.

My responsibility will be to unite all the women and men ready to take on the tremendous challenges which are waiting for us, and to act.

The foundation of the house of civil rights is in the voices of all the great civil rights leaders and the soul of every person who heard them. It's in the hands of every person who folded a leaflet for change, and it's in the courage of every person who changed.

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 tide will at last change for us if those of us who can lead do so, and do so by not just talking but making things happen. And to to those who support us, we must call out for action, real tangible actions to help us turn this tide our way.

I believe Native Americans, women, and all of us deserve representation, and that we all need to fight with everything we have to make it so.

When marginalized people gain voice and center their own experiences, things begin changing. And we see this in all kinds of grassroots movements.

My family are so proud of me for standing up for marginalised people in nerd communities.

I will keep speaking for my people.

I grew up always thinking that fighting for justice was our obligation, whether that's giving your voice to something, serving as a verbal advocate for someone, or physically being in spaces or occupying space to make and create change.

I want to represent Asian women.

As a gay man, I think the role of culture is central to how you change politics - culture is politics.

I like to give a voice to others, especially things neglected or despised.

I want to be a champion for the people I have fought for all my life - regular people.

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