Franchesca Ramsey Quotes

We must make sure #MeToo breaks the race, class, gender, and faith lines that make it so hard for marginalized people to be heard.

I fight to prioritize black mothers and black children because we deserve to live in a world where our healing is centered and our lives are treated with dignity, respect, and care.

I think our work as movement leaders isn't just about our own visibility but rather how do we make the whole visible. How do we not just fight for our individual selves but fight for everybody?

One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.

If you really want change, you really want it to be inclusive, where everyone's included, otherwise you're just going to have more of the same in the future.

America must be a nation in which its multiracial people are partners in power.

The real power of any movement is how we work together with other social justice movements.

It is not up to women of color to save this country from itself. That's on all of us. That's on all of us.

I often think of Audre Lorde and her saying that we don't live and we don't fight for one specific struggle.

Black History in 2019 and beyond is all about inclusivity.

I'm going to be an advocate to ensure that we are protecting everyone, and we're tearing down barriers and not building barriers.

There is no future without all of us - black, brown and white - coming together.

We have to be intentional with including trans women, all women, all marginalized people. Whether we say 'Me Too' or call ourselves feminists or strive to create a diverse workplace that reflects the world we live in, it's all about being intentional.

Intersectionality has given many advocates a way to frame their circumstances and to fight for their visibility and inclusion.

It is learning how to stand alone, unpopular and sometimes reviled, and how to make common cause with those other identified as outside the structures, in order to define and seek a world in which we can all flourish. It is learning how to take our differences and make the strengths. For the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.

Nobody's free until everybody's free.

Feminism is for all women and girls, not a privileged few or one ethnicity, religion, age, sexual preference, ability, region or hemisphere.

The common denominator all Latinos have is that we want some respect. That's what we're all fighting for.

Certainly we can end racism with love. We can demand that the federal government change its emphasis on racial distinction.

We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.

Feminism is not just about women; it's about letting all people lead fuller lives.

I think it is important that you have people from all different vanguards, from all different walks of society and different viewpoints to be focused on the struggle for equality and democracy. We need as many champions for the cause and as many events as possible to help keep this in focus.

Collectively, we activists are essential to advancing U.S. policy to help empower marginalized people to lift themselves and their communities out of poverty for good.

The way forward is always found through greater respect for the equal rights of all.

People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.