Social cause Quotes

I have a small Thai boy who dresses me and every year I let him pick what campaign I am going to work on. It saves me having to worry about it and, bless him, it makes him feel involved in the struggle for global liberation.

Wherever I go, I get a sense of longing for community and the desire on the part of grassroots citizens to be part of something bigger and far nobler than themselves. This attitude is particularly evident among the young, many of whom feel deprived of a great cause in which to enlist. .

I am a charity campaigner.

I've been doing music for many years and after a point what is the motivation that drives you to compose and to do stuff? I did this song for the U.N., a fighting for poverty anthem. That's when I realized that I could do a foundation. And when I started the foundation, it was basically to fight poverty and to help - that kind of stuff.

I am so honoured to be supporting the Elton John AIDS Foundation and their mission making London and our global cities AIDS-free.

To find a cause that's larger than yourself and then to give your life to it.

Anything I can do to raise awareness and money for charity, I like to do.

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

Henceforward, I shout to the heavens, I shall deliver no more lectures on behalf of good causes: I am the good cause that denies the need for such lectures. Avaunt, importuning world! Back to my cell.

As a musician, to be part of anything that promotes peace is very rewarding.

I did a gig in the U.S. once for the homeless. I said 'It's nice to see so many bums on seats.'

When I give my time to a worthy cause, it's time well spent. Lending a voice to help raise money - or perhaps just awareness - is the least I can do to give back. When I spend time with people who are fighting for children, it puts everything into perspective.

I will not be deterred from my mission of helping kids in this country.

I felt like calling attention to AIDS. I had the AIDS ribbon colored into my hair during the playoffs in '95.

I've been fighting with Acorn, alongside Acorn, on issues you care about, my entire career.

When progress seems unattainable, it is easier for people to buy into a cause that promotes a false notion of who is to blame.

Feel good about linking hands in human chain for good causes.

I liked the clear morality of 1941, when you had no doubt about good and evil. There was a lot of idealism, people fighting for a cause. People are searching for morality today.

I feel like most people know that I'm a vegan, and I'm a pretty vocal animal activist. Everything and anything I do, I just kind of use it as a vehicle to be able to send out the message.

Look beyond the individual to the cause of his misery.

Dinah Shore? Wonderful woman. Dinah formed a foundation to locate missing senior citizens by putting their pictures on prune juice bottles.

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 started the Pies Descalzos foundation in Colombia when I was 18, and since then I have been very involved in the crusade for education.

UNICEF is working for the survival of children worldwide. What can we do to get more Americans committed to the cause?

I'm trying to raise awareness for veterans.