Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden Quotes

We need more leaders speaking up for minority groups who have been marginalized and attacked.

There are people in our country, in our communities who are being marginalized and discriminated against every single day. I fight for them.

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

I want to speak for people who can't speak; they're afraid to speak.

If given a choice, I would have certainly selected to be what I am: one of the oppressed instead of one of the oppressors.

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

Where I come from, if you see your family and friends' civil rights being taken away, you speak up and do everything you can to keep that from happening!

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

My only agenda is to bring attention to otherwise ignored and shunned lives.

Oppression costs the oppressor too much if the oppressed stand up and protest.

I want to be the voice and the vision for the poor and the powerless.

We need someone who is going to stand up, speak up, and speak out for the people who need help, for the people who have been discriminated against.

It is important to me to keep fighting for the rights of those who cannot.

World leaders and, particularly, Muslim religious leaders need to stand up and protect the oppressed.

Justice, particularly for the oppressed and marginalized in our society, never comes without great effort and sacrifice.

You never completely have your rights, one person, until you all have your rights.

Anywhere where the humanity of people is undermined, anywhere where people are left in the dust, there we will find our cause.

Freedom must be demanded and defended, by those who have been denied it and by those who are already free.

There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too long endured that we are not determined to abolish.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.

I have spent all my life advocating on behalf of the poor, oppressed and marginalized. As a social justice and human rights activist, and now as President of the Republic of Malawi, I have a deep appreciation for the challenges of those on the margins of society.

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 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.

Until we are all free, we are none of us free.