Rose McGowan Quotes

LGBT people are some of the bravest and most potent change agents and leaders I have encountered, and the most forceful defenders of the vulnerable and voiceless, because they know what it's like to be there.

The bravery shown by Azza Suleiman who dared to stand up for another woman who was being beaten, and paid a heavy price in doing so, is both awe-inspiring and humbling.

The foundation of the house of civil rights is in the voices of all the great civil rights leaders and the soul of every person who heard them. It's in the hands of every person who folded a leaflet for change, and it's in the courage of every person who changed.

I think that a lot of times people don't understand the bravery that's involved with the Me Too movement.

True leadership is when you are willing to risk your power and voice so that all of ours can be heard.

To be courageous is to be a voice for the voiceless

It [is] that courage that Africa most desperately needs.

Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.

I felt like it was a sense of duty for me to give these women a voice.

Jews have always thought that having someone elevated with his head above the grass was not good for the Jews. I never felt that way. I believe that you have to stand up.

Usually, the leaders appear in the moment of the highest stress, when it is time, speaking symbolically, to go to the barricades. Then people, clever, capable, but focused on their own tasks, will leave their immediate occupations and go to the barricades, because there is nowhere to hide.

When the men are silent, it is our duty to raise our voices in behalf of our ideals.

Speaking out is important for me because everyone should be treated equally.

I represent the 'Wonder Woman' of the new world.

No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.

I'm saying to be a hero is means you step across the line and are willing to make a sacrifice, so heroes always are making a sacrifice. Heroes always take a risk. Heroes always deviant. Heroes always doing something that most people don't and we want to change - I want to democratise heroism to say any of us can be a hero.

Facing sexism and racism and classism and transphobia, there are ways to choose to act in those situations, and there shouldn't be a prescriptive list of things that you have to say.

If you can find the courage, if you have in your heart even the slightest bit of rebellion against injustice, maybe you can channel that and become a leader.

I thought that the chief thing to be done in order to equal boys was to be learned and courageous. So I decided to study Greek and learn to manage a horse.

If we're afraid to stand in our own skin with those we work with, then how do we lead those who have no voice at all?

I have always felt my role was to do anything I could to enable the powerless to speak. I want America to hear these voices because they are beautiful voices.

I've been a voice for many people.

If you have an opportunity to use your voice you should use it.

I choose bold. I choose action. I choose what's right for the people. I choose to make a difference.

My self-imposed mandate is to be the voice for the voiceless.