Platon Quotes

I tend to focus on young people and on giving a voice to groups of people who don't normally get their voices heard.

There's a lot of talk now about the PC police, and 'why is everything bad?' It isn't. What it is, is that marginalized and oppressed people who have never had a soapbox, who have never been given a microphone, suddenly have a microphone.

I am here to give voice to the invisible.

My work is about giving voice to the unheard, and reiterating the voice of the heard in such a way that you question, or re-examine, what is the truth.

It's time for storytellers to tell the stories that have not had the privilege of being shown to the world, and the audience will be there.

My only agenda is to bring attention to otherwise ignored and shunned lives.

I am now using media as a tool to bring attention to marginalized people.

I don't feel drawn to lightness, I need something more. I feel that - oh, I hate saying this, it sounds so wanky - but I feel a real urge to give voices to people we don't usually hear from in real life.

Often, those with the most to lose as a result of a poor policy move are the most vulnerable and most marginalized. Those folks need a voice, and I will endeavor to be that voice.

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.

Speak up for the people that nobody speaks for.

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.

Only when the oppressed are heard can we have an honest solutions based dialogue.

The reason I got into filmmaking was super naive: to change the world, you know? To really make the voices that we don't get to hear heard and the images and the stories that we don't get to see seen. I would like to normalize that.

Fundamentally, one of the things I tend to migrate toward when I'm working is a story about people whose stories aren't told in theater.

I think it's important for not just me but women of color, trans women, and people who are marginalized to be telling stories of themselves. It's important for us to be behind the lens.

My intent is to speak on behalf of those whose voices are less readily heard - children and women at risk

A voice that was never wanted has become a voice for so many people who don’t have one.

You've got so many groups that have no voice in this world - the indigenous, the poor. So how can I use the resources that I have and bring them up, highlight them. And it's not that difficult. It's just choosing and concentrating and focusing.

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

I'm always drawn to the underdogs, to the people whose stories don't get told.

I cannot be made into the commentator for the unspoken black masses.

I try to do stories that make a difference - stories that affect the way people think, stories that people need to hear - and usually what drives me is to do stories about people who have no voice, people who have no political power, people who are overlooked by society.

My writing is often a way of 'bearing witness' for others who lack the education and the opportunity to tell their own stories, so I hope that my writing won't be affected too much by my personal life.

I feel a real sense of duty to use the voice and the platform I've been afforded by my fame to speak out for those whose voices don't get a chance to be heard.