Efua Dorkenoo Quotes

The real power of any movement is how we work together with other social justice movements.

I think our work as movement leaders isn't just about our own visibility but rather how do we make the whole visible. How do we not just fight for our individual selves but fight for everybody?

To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.

Today, I see thousands of Mahatma Gandhis, Martin Luther Kings, and Nelson Mandelas marching forward and calling on us. The boys and girls have joined. I have joined in. We ask you to join, too.

I believe we can make progress on bringing true equality and fairness back to our government if we continue to work together and make our voices heard.

As long as we're united, and as long as we continue to organize, invest, and lead with our values, we'll be unstoppable.

We've seen a lot of people come together, no matter the race, and have support of black people. I think that's a huge thing. I don't know if it's going to fix all our issues, but I think it's a step in the right direction. I go out and I've protested, I've marched.

We pave the sunlit path toward justice together, brick by brick. This is my brick.

I think it is important that you have people from all different vanguards, from all different walks of society and different viewpoints to be focused on the struggle for equality and democracy. We need as many champions for the cause and as many events as possible to help keep this in focus.

We have to realize we are building a movement.

Collectively, we activists are essential to advancing U.S. policy to help empower marginalized people to lift themselves and their communities out of poverty for good.

Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for creating change.

In any human-rights campaign, everybody must do what they can.

Hillary Clinton is the problem; she is not the solution to Donald Trump. We are the solution. We are the ones we've been waiting for. This is our moment. Together, we do have the power to create an America and a world that works for all of us.

If you ever think about me, and you ain't gonna do no revolutionary act, forget about me. I don't want myself on your mind if you're not going to work for the people.

The essence of Ferguson is the spirit of the people, and I'm so happy to see the spirit because I haven't seen it like that since the Civil Rights Movement.

LGBT people are some of the bravest and most potent change agents and leaders I have encountered, and the most forceful defenders of the vulnerable and voiceless, because they know what it's like to be there.

No matter what political cause compels us, we should always feel as though it's being threatened. We should use these causes, whatever they are, to bring people together and get each other excited about our role, so we feel like we can't stop and won't stop.

When we see active and former NFL players uniting with owners and the League to address injustice, we can see the way football brings people together beyond the game itself.

I want to influence the younger generation to know that we have the ability to make a change and bring us all together. Black Lives Matter.

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 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.

I hope my work inspires people to speak and to stand up together to make change. Big or small, it doesn't matter.

Regardless of who is elected president in 2016, we all still live together. Each of us has a different role to play, but we all have to hold the collective space for movement-building together. It's the only way we move forward.

'Rise Up' is very necessary. Point blank.