Clara Zetkin Quotes

I founded the 'me too' movement in 2006 because I wanted to find a way to connect with the black and brown girls in the program I ran.

The Women's March moved me.

Things like the Women's March have been just so encouraging, and I'd like to see that continue.

Going to meetings for Time's Up has been deeply affirming for me.

I want to represent Asian women.

To stand together against homophobic, sexist, misogynistic, anti-Semitic and racist agendas. I’m an optimist and I can’t help but feel hopeful about the future of film - especially looking at all the beautiful people in this room. Martin Luther King Jr. said, ‘Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.’ I would like to encourage everyone in this room to please speak up.

I'm very grateful for the platform that I've had in my life to speak out about the things I care about.

I've learned how to measure what I say. Al Sharpton in 1986 was trying to be heard. I was a local guy and was like, 'Y'all are ignoring us.'

Social media are a catalyst for the advancement of everyone's rights. It's where we're reminded that we're all human and all equal. It's where people can find and fight for a cause, global or local, popular or specialized, even when there are hundreds of miles between them.

I feel a real sense of duty to use the voice and the platform I've been afforded by my fame to speak out for those whose voices don't get a chance to be heard.

At the end of the day, what I have is the power to give a louder voice to people who have issues, questions and problems.

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

People and systems count on our silence to keep us exactly where we are.... in a world that wants us to whisper, I choose to yell.

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.

This stand wasn't because I feel like I'm being put down in any kind of way. This is because I'm seeing things happen to people that don't have a voice: people that don't have a platform to talk and have their voices heard and affect change. So I'm in the position where I can do that, and I'm going to do that for people that can't.

I think it is important to speak out.

I can relate to pushing yourself because you want to help and move culture toward justice.

I'm known as a voice for a generation of people that don't have a voice.

I'm always wanting and willing to be a voice for my people, a voice for the injustice.

I'm the national co-chair for the Women's March on Washington.

I can't afford to be quiet all the time. I learned that.

My mother supported me from the beginning and never said you should be an activist or civil rights leader or minister.

Trans folks are going to rise up for their moments and their money!

In September of 2015, I did the unthinkable: I used my second-ever runway show to bring awareness to the Black Lives Matter movement. It was the hardest thing I've ever had to do professionally. It was lonely.

The activism of marginalized people often comes with visibility and being heard. Which can lead people to believe that recognition and awareness is the actual end point. And it is not.