10 quotes
"I don’t think you should be ashamed of anybody you know that has AIDS. You should stand as close to them as you can and help them out as much as you can. I’m a strong believer in that and that’s why I try to do that for everyone I know has the virus."
- Marsha P. Johnson
Compassion
"If a transvestite doesn’t say I’m gay and I’m proud and I’m a transvestite, then nobody else is going to hop up there and say I’m gay and I’m proud and I’m a transvestite for them."
- Marsha P. Johnson
Self-confidence
"You never completely have your rights, one person, until you all have your rights."
- Marsha P. Johnson
Belief in Self
"We have to be visible. We should not be ashamed of who we are."
- Marsha P. Johnson
Empowerment
"As long as gay people don’t have their rights all across America, there’s no reason for celebration."
- Marsha P. Johnson
Empowerment
"How many years has it taken people to realize that we are all brothers and sisters and human beings in the human race? I mean how many years does it take people to see that? We’re all in this rat race together!"
- Marsha P. Johnson
Empowerment
"No pride for some of us without liberation for all of us."
- Marsha P. Johnson
Empowerment
"Darling, I want my gay rights now."
- Marsha P. Johnson
Ambition
"History isn’t something you look back at and say it was inevitable. It happens because people make decisions that are sometimes very impulsive and of the moment, but those moments are cumulative realities."
- Marsha P. Johnson
Philosophy
"How many years has it taken people to realize that we are all brothers and sisters and human beings in the human race?"
- Marsha P. Johnson
Equilibrium