“How many years has it taken people to realize that we are all brothers and sisters and human beings in the human race?”
"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
"Fishing is a discipline in the equality of men – for all men are equal before fish."
- Herbert Hoover
Equilibrium
"Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like."
- Lao Tzu
Equilibrium
"The ground is level at the foot of the cross."
- Billy Graham
Equilibrium
"We are all one — and if we don’t know it, we will learn it the hard way."
- Bayard Rustin
Equilibrium
"Race, gender, religion, sexuality, we are all people and that’s it. We’re all people. We’re all equal."
- Connor Franta
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