Abhijit Banerjee Quotes

Every white liberal straight man needs to take action and work at unifying all peoples of our sides and stop making women and people of color and the LGBT community fight it out themselves and just pat them on the back. We have to take active roles in supporting them, defending them, and hiring them.

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

My feminism is humanism, with the weakest being those who I represent, and that includes many beings and life forms, including some men.

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.

As straight Americans we have two choices: we can choose to sit back and enjoy our rights as we have them, or we can realize that it is actually not freedom at all when our friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues do not share these basic rights.

I am always on the women's side.

It was a feeling of loyalty to our own sex and an enthusiasm to have every degradation that was put upon our sex removed.

It's hard for men sometimes to talk about feminism, just as it's hard for people who aren't from ethnic minorities to talk about racial prejudice. It's a difficult conversation to have, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't have it.

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

I believe Native Americans, women, and all of us deserve representation, and that we all need to fight with everything we have to make it so.

My goal is to show girls that I'm fighting so they don't have to, so they don't have to fight the same battles, so they don't have to fight for wage equality or whatever it may be.

It was the Cosby issue that made me realize how much I really cared about women's issues and how much I realize it's important for me to be an advocate for issues that aren't necessarily my own, to be an ally for issues.

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.

I definitely think men can be leaders. I see an analogy in the case of what helped me think about racism, which was to find parallels with sexism. In other words, I don't think I was such a great ally until I got mad on my own behalf.

I consider myself a feminist. My whole life has been about standing up for women, for anybody really, who's been abused.

As women, we must stand up for ourselves. We must stand up for each other. We must stand up for justice for all.

We got the vote, which we should've been born with, in 1920. Everything we've had to struggle for - it's ridiculous.

I'm trying to appeal to the disenfranchised everybody, not just specifically gay.

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.

If we truly seek diversity in fiction, we have to let the needs of others come before our need to define ourselves as social justice allies.

Fault lines run along color lines in American public life, and the women's movement is no exception. Over the years, feminism has become more inclusive but there is still hard work to be done to include LGBT women and communities of color.

While women may look different, as some wear suits and others wear saris, or some cover their hair while others wear their hair loose, women need to stand together because they all face the central point of discrimination, although the extremity of which may be different from Kigali to Kabul.

Too often, advances in civil rights or women's rights are undermined by wrong-headed legislation or weak-kneed political leadership.

There are so many women out there relying on me to represent them.