Faith Ringgold Quotes

I'm just about social justice. Amen to women like me!

At the women's march, we held signs that said, 'Today we march, tomorrow we run.' They didn't believe us, but it's coming to pass.

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

I can hear the roar of women's silence.

... a legitimate revolution must be led by, made by those who have been most oppressed: black, brown, yellow, red, and white women—with men relating to that the best they can.

You may hiss as much as you please, but women will get their rights anyway. You can’t stop us, neither

The world will not change overnight, and liberation will not happen unless individual women agree to be outcasts, eccentrics, perverts, and whatever the powers-that-be choose to call them.

There are real consequences when women speak out. It's really dangerous, and it takes real courage. We are still speaking out against a white male majority. Forget the glass ceiling. We haven't even broken the glass floor!

I have always thought it was a terrible shame that the women's movement didn't realise how much easier it was to reach people by making them laugh than by shaking a fist and saying, 'Don't you see how oppressed you are?'

I want more people to speak up about issues, like equal pay.

I know we have to have people of good conscience who stand up against oppression. I know we have to have people who understand that social justice belongs to us all. And that wakes me up every morning, and that makes me fight even harder.

it is immoral for powerless people to accept this powerlessness. They may not succeed in getting power but they can fight for it, and if enough fight for it, it makes it very difficult for the people with the big sticks.

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

You Can't Kill the Spirit resonates with the voices and power of women around the globe who have refused to be either passive or violent but instead act firmly and imaginatively to oppose oppression in its many guises. A wonderful tonic for activists and a treasure for those who teach, these stories bring women's history to life.

Women make natural anarchists and revolutionaries, because they've always been second-class citizens, kinda having had to claw their way up.

You can only watch injustice go on for so long until you're compelled to say something. To speak out against it.

I demanded more rights for women because I know what women had to put up with.

If we're for one another, we're feminists. The rest is semantics.

I didn't want to be discriminated against because of my gender and status. I promised myself I was never going to be treated as a second-class citizen.

Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.

For as long as I can remember, I've always been interested in issues of social justice, political freedom, and civil rights.

To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.

But you know, the system almost destroyed itself while it was goin' on trying to destroy us.

And the spirit of revolution will not die while the hearts of these workers continue to beat.

I couldn't find anyone doing something about the astounding injustices women were experiencing, so I decided to do something myself. I cannot tell you how many people ridiculed my efforts.