David Arquette Quotes

You can make the case that slacktivism is important because it makes people feel affiliated to a movement and be part of it, and talk about it.

If there's a cause you believe in, go out there, get active, and do it.

What I always wanted to do when I was a kid was to speak out and help people which I continue to do afterwards.

I want people to get involved and to connect with veterans.

It's an interesting line that I walk. The AIDS crisis has done a lot for my songs and made them proliferate, and my songs have contributed a lot to that cause as well.

I'm a real person, and I'm angry. I'm trying to use this celebrity thing to get people some help. AIDS, poverty, racism - I want to be one of the hands that helps stop all that. I'll put it on my shoulders. I'll charge it to my account.

There's so much importance in honoring your everyday hero. It doesn't take money. It doesn't take connections. What matters is that people get involved. Whether your passion is gun control or food or whatever it may be, everybody needs to stop being so self-absorbed.

What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences.

For me the march was a labor - a labor of love - but I was busy handing out flyers for the National Association of Black Social Workers, so I really wasn't standing in the crowd listening and observing. I was busy.

I was always interested in social change but never actually did anything about it.

If I can raise attention to a cause, I will.

Let's resolve to never be a bystander in the fight for human dignity

Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.

It's very important that people who are feeling the need to do something... get activated.

Public service and community organizing and movement building is such a part of my DNA that it's really hard to separate it.

As a human being, when I see things going on in my community, I feel compelled to do something, to say something.

Kendrick Lamar, he has stood up for peace and love in our community. When he could have just stood up for himself.

I'm an activist and advocate. I have empathy. It is hard to ignore causes.

Regardless of how much media coverage will be received, talking and raising awareness about social injustice isn't enough.

I was there when APLA was started in somebody's living room.

I often wonder if I should adopt a cause to call my own or start tweeting inspirational messages. And when tragedy strikes and the world takes to social media, is it now my responsibility to respond with #RIPs and #prayfors?

I cannot expect actor Prakash Raj, who is versatile across languages, to express solidarity with a cause.

Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.

As far as my work for causes or social issues, that's something I'm doing as a private citizen.

One of the great movements in my lifetime among educated people is the need to commit themselves to action. Most people are not satisfied with giving money; we also feel we need to work.