Pat Quinn Quotes

Our party has always been the voice of the powerless and the voiceless.

The purpose of influence is to speak up for those who have no influence.

We happen to be the vanguard of that revolutionary struggle because we are the most dispossessed.

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

Rich people march on Washington every day.

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.

Speak up for the people that nobody speaks for.

Everyone who lobbies represents someone’s particular point of view.

I had the blessing of opportunity. You need the folks in the boardroom who have consciences and the people in the streets who can picket at the right time.

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.

Neutrality is for referees in a football game. You have to take a stand. The really, really good journalists always take a stand with those who have no power, with those who have no rights, and with those who have no voice.

It's all about representing the forgotten men and women, to make sure that they have a voice and members of the Freedom Caucus take that very seriously.

I'm the people's champion.

The average guy doesn't have an army of lobbyists and lawyers working on his behalf every day in the White House.

To insist that no one can support the interests of the aam aadmi without being one himself is like saying that no man can support women's rights.

Those that have a voice have to speak for those of us who are silenced.

The better we understand how identities and power work together from one context to another, the less likely our movements for change are to fracture.

As I have always said, those closest to the pain should be closest to the power.

This was a theme of Sen. Akaka's career - to advocate for people who did not have power, for people who were vulnerable. He was a champion for the federal government employees who continue to this day to be a punching bag for some.

The condition of truth, is to allow suffering to speak. Which means attend to suffering of the least of these, of the orphan, the widow, the poor, the working people, the gay brother, the lesbian sister, the transgender, the black people.

If you choose to use your status and influence to raise your voice on behalf of those who have no voice; if you choose to identify not only with the powerful, but with the powerless; if you retain the ability to imagine yourself into the lives of those who do not have your advantages, then it will not only be your proud families who celebrate your existence, but thousands and millions of people whose reality you have helped transform for the better. We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.

Going to a charity tea party and thinking that you've done your bit toward putting an end to social inequity in the world.

If you're a voice for a community, then you're a voice for something more than yourself. I want to have an impact, because I don't want anybody to have to go through what I went through.

If there's a theme in my work, it's that I like to focus on smart people who are facing oppression and who are fighting back against it.