Resist

"Today is also a day that we rededicate ourselves to defending the rights and improving the lives of women here in the United States and around the world.” – Congresswoman Maxine Waters as shown with Coretta Scott

“I am the legal guardian for the children. In case something happens, I will be protecting them.” - says Nora Sandigo, an immigrant advocate and former refugee

"It is what I would call 'scorching of your soul,' so it upsets me greatly that this occurred here in our community."- Rapid City Police Chief Karl Jegeris

“One of the things about my testimony that I think resonated so much with women, was that it seemed so regular, so much like what was going on in their day to day lives.” - Anita Hill, American Attorney and Academic

“It wasn’t done for a malignant reason. It was only done to bring attention to the atrocities of which we were experiencing in a country that was supposed to represent us .” – Tommie Smith, US Olympic gold medalist

“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.” ― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

“We need to push this issue to the front of conversations so that employers across the US can truly understand that all male and female employees must be compensated equally. Not close. Not almost the same. Equally.”- Serena Williams

“The fact is that women have to work 10 times harder to get the same opportunities as men. And they have then 10 times less the right to fail…. an incredible group of powerful women succeeded in delivering one of the greatest diplomatic achievements in history, when more than 170 nations signed the Paris Agreement on climate change.” — Anne Hidalgo, mayor of Paris

"Together we fight for justice for our children and for our communities."

“I’m a high school-educated woman. And I rely on incredible women like the groups Crunk Feminist Collective and Black Women’s Blueprint…to really guide me through the process of carving out my feelings, and how I articulate them.”- Solange in Bust Magazine

“The best judge of whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women. If it’s educating its girls, if women have equal rights, that country is going to move forward. But if women are oppressed and abused and illiterate, then they’re going to fall behind.” - Barack Obama

“I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.” - James Baldwin

Putting money into female owned businesses provides wealth and weakens the ever widening income gap between men and women.

"At the time of its emergence, black women were frequently asked to choose whether the black movement or the women’s movement was most important. This was the wrong question. The more appropriate question was how to understand the intersections and interconnections between the two movements.”- Angela Davis

“On that day, society in a way shut down and it proved that women are—like men—pillars of society.”

"I'm no longer accepting the things I cannot change..... I am changing the things I cannot accept" Angela Davis

“We have achieved a great deal, but we still have a long distance to go.” - Gloria Steinem