A Quote by Alexandra Robbins

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

Alexandra Robbins

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Alexandra Robbins
American - Journalist
Born: 1976

Encouraging young people to believe in themselves and find their own voice whether it's through writing, drama or art is so important in giving young people a sense of self-worth.

Michael Morpurgo

I started to hallucinate and hear voices as clear as crystal. I heard my family in a casual familial conversation I heard Koran readings in a heavenly voice. I heard music from my country. Later on the guards used these hallucinations and started talking with funny voices through the plumbing, encouraging me to hurt the guard and plot an escape.

Mohamedou Ould Slahi

People must be able to use their voice, tell their stories, have their experiences recognized and their voices heard.

Patricia Leavy

This stand wasn't because I feel like I'm being put down in any kind of way. This is because I'm seeing things happen to people that don't have a voice: people that don't have a platform to talk and have their voices heard and affect change. So I'm in the position where I can do that, and I'm going to do that for people that can't.

Colin Kaepernick

I'm proud that I've been able to work with other artists to make sure that the smallest voices - the voices of our children - have a chance to be heard. Artists can reach, inspire, and motivate young people and leaders in a powerful way.

Shakira

I can't belong to groups. I've tried. I behave normally, but people don't look at me normally.

Jeanne Moreau

Death Row is a bridge out of that ghetto world, giving voices to those people society thinks shouldn't be heard.

Nate Dogg

People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups.

Robyn Hitchcock

I feel like there's just so much of everything that I don't know what people have heard and what they haven't heard. I think with the fact that there's the Internet and that people can share home-made recordings, I think a lot of the songs do get to be heard, even if it's not the best quality, or there's clinking glasses or it's just piano and voice, people can at least hear the song.

Regina Spektor

The voices of the residents of Flint did not get heard by people that were making decisions and I think that's the most important thing. I want to make sure those voices are answered in the future.

Gretchen Whitmer

I believe it is the responsibility and duty of those in high-profile positions to give a voice to people whose voices cannot be heard.

Donatella Versace

'Selma' is a story about voice - the voice of a great leader; the voice of a community that triumphs despite turmoil; and the voice of a nation striving to grow into a better society. I hope the film reminds us that all voices are valuable and worthy of being heard.

Ava DuVernay

When there is a voice in a piece of music, we tend to focus on the voice. That is probably something from when we were babies and we depended on hearing our mother's voice.

Robert Wyatt

I am the voice of the people in Iran whose voices are silent and whose demands cannot be heard by the rest of the world.

Shirin Ebadi

I hope that young people will also look to politics as a vehicle to not only have their voices heard, but actually to be the change makers that they want to see. They are disaffected, understandably, but I hope that young people will not only turn out to vote but also run for office.