“I will not yield to disrespectful men”
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

“My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you.”
Audre Lorde

“If you surrender to the wind you can ride it.”
Toni Morrison

“If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be”
Maya Angelou

“It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.”
James Baldwin

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace."
Jimi Hendrix

“We will not win our rights by staying quietly in our closets.” Harvey Milk

“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul – and sings the tunes without the words – and never stops at all.”
Emily Dickinson

"I'm not an optimist. I'm a prisoner of hope".
Desmond Tutu

“Speak you mind even if your voice shakes.”
Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“The pedestal upon which women have been placed has all too often, upon closer inspection, been revealed as a cage.”
Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“Migrants and refugees are not pawns on the chessboard of humanity." Pope Francis.

"I would rather die of passion than of boredom,"
Vincent Van Gogh

“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
Maya Angelou

“We are powerful because we have survived.”
Audre Lorde

I call this one the closet.I’m at the age where I’m tired of hiding my true self.

“We owe our children – the most vulnerable citizens in any society – a life free from violence and fear.”
Nelson Mandela

“War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.”
Marvin Gaye

"Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.”
John F. Kennedy

“A quiet conscience makes one strong!” Anne Frank

“A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together".
Margaret Atwood

"Art is to console those who are broken by life".
Vincent Van Gogh

“There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.”
Howard Zinn

“There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.”
Howard Zinn

"We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children." Jimmy Carter

"It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it." Martin Luther King Jr.

“There is peace even in the storm."Vincent Van Gogh

“As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.”
Desmond Tutu

“War itself is the enemy of the human race.”
Howard Zinn