Trace Lysette Quotes

Feminism is for all women and girls, not a privileged few or one ethnicity, religion, age, sexual preference, ability, region or hemisphere.

Feminism is rooted in racial rights and gender rights, and all of those things intersect, and to say that that's not something you can stand behind - it confuses me. I think it's a really great word.

Fault lines run along color lines in American public life, and the women's movement is no exception. Over the years, feminism has become more inclusive but there is still hard work to be done to include LGBT women and communities of color.

We must make sure #MeToo breaks the race, class, gender, and faith lines that make it so hard for marginalized people to be heard.

If I only care about equality for transgender people, then I am leaving so many people behind - if I'm not at the same time seeking to end discrimination against people of color, seeking to end discrimination against women, seeking to ensure that people of every religious background have an equal opportunity.

Like feminism, I want to create systems and structures for the equity for all people, especially girls and women.

I can only speak for myself and what feminism means to me, and that is equality for every human being: equal rights, equal representation, equal pay, etc.

The feminist movement is way bigger than the word. I don't police people on what they call themselves, but equality and a general sense of togetherness are really important to me.

Feminism is not just about women; it's about letting all people lead fuller lives.

We are justified in believing that the success of this movement for equality of the sexes means more progress toward equality of the races.

The Time's Up campaign is for everyone, in all capacities, contributions big and small.

Black people come in so many different bodies, genders, and sexualities, so it's important that we're conscious of that so we can fight for a world that embraces and uplifts black people of every kind. Our voices are powerful and have the ability to make change.

As feminists, we have to become more tolerant of each other's differences because we are essentially working towards the same goal.

I believe in people, and you don't need to be a feminist for that.

I often think of Audre Lorde and her saying that we don't live and we don't fight for one specific struggle.

I'm just about social justice. Amen to women like me!

We at the Women's March tried intersectionality, and we were the group that said we're going to do it right, and we're going to defy our women-of-color elders who told us, 'We did this with the white woman before, and it doesn't work.'

Feminism is being broken open, to welcome more people than just white women of a certain class.

I believe Native Americans, women, and all of us deserve representation, and that we all need to fight with everything we have to make it so.

Every white liberal straight man needs to take action and work at unifying all peoples of our sides and stop making women and people of color and the LGBT community fight it out themselves and just pat them on the back. We have to take active roles in supporting them, defending them, and hiring them.

My 'Vogue' is about being inclusive; it's about diversity. Showing different women, different body shapes, different races, class. To be tackling gender.

Intersectionality has given many advocates a way to frame their circumstances and to fight for their visibility and inclusion.

I want things to be great for people of color and for women.

To me, the point of feminism is to be inclusive.

Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality.