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If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.

Malcolm X

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We can ALWAYS make a difference to someone, no matter what role we play.

Lindsey Stirling

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Understand and be confident that each of us can make a difference by caring and acting in small as well as big ways.

Marian Wright Edelman

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Change starts with YOU. When you step up, you invite others to step up, too.

Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass

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Hisoka will protect all you precious fruits at a con. Even he doesn’t approve of creepers.- Cosplayer: Elazule Illumini

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Degradation and exploitation is found from the air above to the soil below. Those unfortunates caught in between are all enslaved by masters who proudly proclaim this just happens to be the "natural" order of things.

christyl rivers PhD

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One of the best ways you can fight discrimination is by taking good care of yourself. Your survival is not just important; it's an act of revolution.

DaShanne Stokes

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I refuse to believe that all men are pigs and women competing whores.

Anastasia, Master of the Universe: Memoirs - Book One

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It would be easy to become a victim of our circumstances and continue feeling sad, scared or angry; or instead, we could choose to deal with injustice humanely and break the chains of negative thoughts and energies, and not let ourselves sink into it.

Erin Gruwell, The Freedom Writers Diary

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It is hard to feel safe and comfortable when the only measures for what is safe and comfortable are normative ideas you don't abide by.

Samhita Mukhopadhyay, Outdated: Why Dating Is Ruining Your Love Life

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Simply put, feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression. This was a definition of feminism I offered in Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center more than 10 years ago. It was my hope at the time that it would become a common definition everyone would use. I liked this definition because it did not imply that men were the enemy. By naming sexism as the problem it went directly to the heart of the matter. Practically, it is a definition which implies that all sexist thinking and action is the problem, whether those who perpetuate it are female or male, child or adult. It is also broad enough to include an understanding of systemic institutionalized sexism. As a definition it is open-ended. To understand feminism it implies one has to necessarily understand sexism.

Bell Hooks, Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics

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When approaching me in public, do not be rude. Say please. Introduce yourself. Have manners. Be considerate. Otherwise you'll be disappointed.

CM PUNK

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This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself.

Robert G. Ingersoll, The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child

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All too often, when we see injustices, both great and small, we think, That's terrible, but we do nothing. We say nothing. We let other people fight their own battles. We remain silent because silence is easier. Qui tacet consentire videtur is Latin for 'Silence gives consent.' When we say nothing, when we do nothing, we are consenting to these trespasses against us.

Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist: Essays

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Race, gender, religion, sexuality, we are all people and that's it. We're all people. We're all equal.

Connor Franta

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Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red.

Clive Barker, Books of Blood, Volumes One to Three

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Rise to the challenges that life presents you. You can't develop genuine character and ability by sidestepping adversity and struggle.

Daisaku Ikeda