Radha Ravi Quotes

I could just go to the horse races and take lovely holidays, but I have some strong views, and I want to make a difference.

I grew up in Sydney in a very political household, where we were all for the underdog.

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.

You have to remind people of their own struggles. It's a responsibility.

I wouldn't characterize my work, however, as directly political.

I'm not an activist; I don't look for controversy. I'm not a political person, but I'm a person with compassion. I care passionately about equal rights. I care about human rights. I care about animal rights.

To get involved with a cause, you really have to become aware of it. You have to go on the ground and see with your own eyes, the people who have been affected by it, their process in how they're combating it, and what the organization represents.

I see an issue I like, and I support it.

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.

I'm going to save my public voice largely for the issues where I have some depth.

Activism isn't something you just kind of get involved in and then turn your back on it.

What pushes me forward is everything I have learned: political, social, cultural. I put all that into the clothes.

I think, in my own life, I'm pretty political. I think I have some very strong ideals, and I struggle a lot with it. I struggle a lot with feeling like, 'I have a platform; should I be saying more?'

I think if you work with different kinds of codes, attitudes, in the end you have a language. It's like within a person. You are not always the same.

If you are in any position of influence, then it's almost your duty to try to help. If people don't have the ability or opportunity to help themselves, then sometimes it's got to come from someone who can.

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

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?

Though I do believe that when you live in political times it is inevitable that your art be political, I also think we need to start making activists celebrities rather than trying to make celebrities to be activists.

I'm very political and I'm not ashamed of it, and I think having the platform I have, I want to take advantage of that.

I am not an activist. I am an actor.

My music was about travelling a lot and connecting with other people, and English is the voice of travelling.

Some of my teammates and coaches don't understand what I'm doing by speaking out, but they support me, for which I am grateful. They have become part of my surrogate family here in the United States.

We've always been a band who wants to put our money where our mouths are. We have political songs, but we don't like to hit people over the heads with stuff. So it's better to do benefits and causes and talk about it later rather than always trying to put it in the song.

When Indians have loved and embraced Pakistani artistes, why can't the latter come out in their support when injustice has been meted out to the people? No one wants these artistes to wage a war against their government. People didn't demand that they condemn their own country. They just expected them to say something for the sake of humanity.

I think more people are engaged in the issues I want to talk about.