Raising Awareness Quotes

I'm not afraid to use my platform. I don't want to preach to people; I just want to put my opinions across about things I feel strongly about.

It’s one thing to run across Canada, but now, people are really going to know what cancer is.

I do feel a responsibility to try and raise awareness and to help tell the stories of those who may not otherwise have a voice.

I think my mom exposed me to the concept of using your voice for anything you care about.

You can still fight when someone can't talk.

I think a culture can really be elevated through the arts, and it's always a dream come true when I come across roles that enable me to fuse my love of storytelling with my passion for activism and raising social awareness.

My job, as an actor, is to entertain people. My contribution to society is to be a respite from everyday life. People go home and watch television or they go to the movies, and they get to escape their reality. But if I can do entertainment that also maybe can educate people, educate myself, move people's hearts and minds, in some way, and bring light to some injustice, that's when entertainment is at its best. And if somebody wants to get more involved in a socially active way, that's when you've done the thing that I've always wanted to be a part of.

I feel it's selfish when you don't use your voice, because then you're just relishing the attention - you're not using it for good.

That is a lot of the reason I do what I do, to really spread the word and spread information and turn people onto different things they may not be, y'know, aware of. That is what Naked City is certainly about.

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 know what my causes are. And I care about them, so I'd rather get out there and talk about them than just play it safe.

There are voices and they must be heard.

The Concert for Bangladesh was just a moral stance.

The story behind 'Check Point' is what drew me in. The script had a couple of twists that I really did not see coming... To get out there and raise people's awareness, I think there's a big responsibility in that.

It took a child. It took a child with a blood transfusion not only to wake me up, but to wake America up, basically. I mean, I read about his plight in a doctor's office in New York in a magazine. I was so outraged about it that I contacted the family. We became friends. I helped them move to another place in Indiana. And we became constant friends.

I don't know how to change the world but I know if I keep talking about how dirty it is out here, somebody gon clean it up.

As long as one person lives in darkness then it seems to be a responsibility to tell other people.

It is very important to be vocal about what you feel about a certain issue.

I think anyone with a voice should use it. I think a lot of people could, and should, do a lot more.

I have a lot of wonderful women in my life and each one means so much to me. That's why I'm passionate about finding the cures. Let friendship inspire your passion to fight breast cancer. Join me and go Passionately Pink for the Cure® today!

I really appreciate when people use their fame and their voice for more than just self-promotion, starting a dialogue about a topic or an issue much bigger than themselves.

When other women have this same operation, it doesn't make any headlines. But the fact that I was the wife of the President put it in headlines and brought before the public this particular experience I was going through. It made a lot of women realize that it could happen to them. I'm sure I've saved at least one person maybe more.

What I want is the world to remember the problems and the people I photograph. What I want is to create a discussion about what is happening around the world and to provoke some debate with these pictures. Nothing more than this. I don't want people to look at them and appreciate the light and the palate of tones. I want them to look inside and see what the pictures represent, and the kind of people I photograph.

If I see any injustice done, I have a big enough mouth and the position to open up about it.

I had only planned to strike the gong violently in order to somehow shake people up and make them more aware. I think I succeeded.