“Not everyone will agree on the best form of activism. If you have trans, nonbinary, and intersex friends or family members, now’s the time to ask them what they want and need.”— Molly Woodstock, bitchmedia.org
“In Astrology, the moon, among its other meanings, has that of ‘the common people,’ who submit (they know not why) to any independent will that can express itself with sufficient energy. The people who guillotined the mild Louis XVI died gladly for Napoleon. The impossibility of an actual democracy i…”— Aleister Crowley, amazon.com
“The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.”— Emma Goldman, amazon.com
“Yes, this was a decision that was narrow in scope. And if this was not Trump's America, it would have a limited impact. But right now, we have a conservative court, and as long as Trump is in office, it risks becoming even more conservative”— Ijeoma Oluo, twitter.com
“There is danger that because of a great victory women will believe their whole struggle for independence ended. They have still far to go. It is for the Woman’s Party to decide whether there is any way in which it can serve in the struggle which lies ahead to remove the remaining forms of woman’s su…”— Alice Paul, nationalwomansparty.org
“A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi . . . has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It’s not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for.”— Thurgood Marshall, thurgoodmarshall.com
“You just backed up a hundred yards as I was walking down the empty street and confronted me. I'm very offended.”— Dirt Nasty, youtube.com
“What greater expression of faith in the American experiment than this, what greater form of patriotism is there than the belief that America is not yet finished, that we are strong enough to be self-critical, that each successive generation can look upon our imperfections and decide that it is in ou…”— Barack Obama, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov
“They marched as Americans who had endured hundreds of years of brutal violence, countless daily indignities –- but they didn’t seek special treatment, just the equal treatment promised to them almost a century before.”— Barack Obama, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov
“This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself.”— Robert G. Ingersoll, amazon.com
“You can argue that it's a different world now than the one when Matthew Shepard was killed, but there is a subtle difference between tolerance and acceptance. It's the distance between moving into the cul-de-sac and having your next door neighbor trust you to keep an eye on her preschool daughter fo…”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com