Accessibility isn’t the end goal. Belonging is.

Carrie Basas, Fakequity

This notion of giving voice to the voiceless – that’s, to me, very flawed. They’ve always been talking. No one’s been listening.

America Ferrera

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

James Baldwin

If you have come to help me you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.

Aboriginal rights activists, Queensland, Australia

We will prevail because we have proven to the world and to ourselves that we are not ‘fringe elements’ or ‘special interest groups’ or so called ‘minorities’. Without us there is no legitimate majority. We are the mainstream.

June Jordan

If you give me a fish, you have fed me for a day.

If you teach me to fish, you have fed me until the river is contaminated or the shoreline seized for development.

But if you teach me to organize, then whatever the challenge, I can join together with my peers and we will fashion our own solution.

Ricardo Levins Morales

Our calling is not to cross boundaries, defy restrictions or escape compartments. It is to embrace a universe that does not admit their existence.

Ricardo Levins Morales

Power comes from below / from the hidden places where it gathers / until, discovering itself, it blazes into view, lighting the sky and reshaping the landscape / sweeping away barriers it seems would stand forever.

Ricardo Levins Morales

True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

Martin Luther King, Jr

I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.

Angela Davis

Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.

Dolores Huerta