Robin Morgan Quotes

I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.

Rights are to be taken, not requested; seized, not begged for.

Let your voice be heard. Don't stand idly by and let things happen to you. Question everything; be informed.

There is no force more liberating than the knowledge that you are fighting for others.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.

If the government fails to listen to your demands, then you will decide what is best for you.

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

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

But if I thought on it, I would like to be remembered as a brother who loved his people and did everything that I knew to fight for them, the liberation of our people.

I have lectured at the U.N. and travelled widely, giving lectures on human rights and gender inequalities in universities. But this is a life I do not wish to live. I don't want to be a showcase, I want to be in a battlefield where I can stand beside the oppressed and the poor.

I like to be able to raise people's consciousness, yes. And to remind that those of us involved in the receiving end of the oppression, we have a duty.

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.

Who ever walked behind anyone to freedom? If we can't go hand in hand, I don't want to go.

There's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.

If you are for freedom and equal rights, which we hear a lot of talk about these days, then you have to include the LGBTQ community in that. And if you're not willing to put your time where your mouth is, then I don't know quite what you mean by commitment in your life.

Always, since our birth, we've insisted on another way of doing politics. Now, we had the chance to do it without arms, but without stopping being Zapatistas; that's why we keep the masks on.

Africans must stand up for themselves and that the strategies and tactics of the struggle should be determined by the African people themselves, and not by others.

We wish to plead our own cause. Too long have others spoken for us.

Our supreme duty is to advance toward freedom—physical, mental, and spiritual—and help others to do so.

Our solidarity will be threatened by them just so long as you do not wake up and refuse to allow them to represent you.

Neither God, nor angels, or just men, command you to suffer for a single moment. Therefore it is your solemn and imperative duty to use every means, both moral, intellectual, and physical, that promise success .... Brethren, arise, arise! Strike for your lives and liberties.... Let your motto be resistance, resistance, resistance!

I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves.

We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves.

The anarchists are not promising anything to anyone. The anarchists only want people to be conscious of their own situation and seize freedom for themselves.

I think we can topple the patriarchy by using our voices to speak out against things that aren't right and that we don't agree with. I think for people who are not people of color or members of the LGBT community, it is being an ally and being an advocate in spaces that people of color or members of the LGBT community can't really get into.