Robert Casey Quotes

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 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.

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.

Go out and speak for the inarticulate and submerged.

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.

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.

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

The common denominator all Latinos have is that we want some respect. That's what we're all fighting for.

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.

I want to be the voice of the people; black, white, everyday, oppressed people. A person trying to make it and to do it right.

I like movies that resonate, that give voice to the voiceless.

My self-imposed mandate is to be the voice for the voiceless.

Speak up for the people that nobody speaks for.

Create power for the powerless.

Our party’s always been the place you can come to wherever there’s injustice. That’s what the Democratic Party’s for. That’s why it was born. That’s why it survives. So the poor and the downtrodden and the bended can have a place to turn.

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

Ted Kennedy’s life’s work was not to champion those with wealth or power or special connections. It was to give a voice to those who were not heard, to add a rung to the ladder of opportunity, to make real the dream of our founding.

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 represent opportunities for other women and other people of color, and I'm trying to start my own kind of movement.

We, as communities that are marginalized, need to open up our minds and realize that we should be asking and advocating for more of everyone. Let's get more gay black men; let's get more trans women.

I'm going to be an advocate to ensure that we are protecting everyone, and we're tearing down barriers and not building barriers.

It's important to be an ally. You don't have to be a black woman to think we should have more black women in tech.

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.