Brave Quote by Sharice Davids

The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a mental illness…

— Edmund White

“The Stonewall riot may have been the start of a civil rights movement, but it was not the beginning of our history.”

— Tom Cardamone

While we have come a long way since the Stonewall riots in 1969, we still have a lot of work to do. Too often,…

— Barack Obama

I think I first learned about Stonewall in Queer Theatre class at the University of Pittsburgh. It made me mad that queer people out…

— Alaska

I was a radical, a revolutionist. I am still a revolutionist…I am glad I was in the Stonewall riot. I remember when someone threw…

— Sylvia Rivera

Protests, such as those in favor of labor rights, women's suffrage, civil rights and gay rights, helped to make America as great as it…

— Max Boot

The uproar of the late '60s - the antiwar movement, black riots, angry women. It was a wonderful time.

— Molly Ivins

There was a resistance movement in the white community, and there was a determined civil rights movement by our neighbors and friends in the…

— Jeff Sessions

If you throw one stone, it’s a punishable offence. If 1,000 stones are thrown, it’s political action. If you set a car on fire,…

— Ulrike Meinhof

I just came from South Africa, a place that had been in a perpetual uprising since 1653, so the uprising had become a way…

— Hugh Masekela

Violence from protesters themselves is extremely rare, but has been made into a talking point by those who stand to benefit from breaking the…

— Nate Powell

Where's the activism? Nobody knows. And anyone who thinks they know, like Todd Gitlin, has their head up their ass. Nobody knows. The day…

— Bill Ayers