Together We Rise Quotes

“This was the whole point and the purpose of the Women’s March—to show people, to tell people that we had to organize not just to protect ourselves, but to protect the most vulnerable communities around us. And in this case, the most vulnerable communities were and are the Muslim community, the undocumented community, the LGBTQ community, and the black community”
― The Women's March Organizers, Together We Rise: Behind the Scenes at the Protest Heard Around the World – A New York Times Bestseller and Oral History of the Women's March with Interviews and Essays

“There is now a battle between the culture of love, reciprocity, and compassion and the culture of division, hate, and fear. Only movements like the Women’s March can intervene in that struggle, because when people truly see others, they recognize their humanity.”
― The Women's March Organizers, Together We Rise: Behind the Scenes at the Protest Heard Around the World – A New York Times Bestseller and Oral History of the Women's March with Interviews and Essays

“Building trust and community on a one-on-one level is necessary in a moment when Trump uses the word love in order to spew hate and calls the people to come together on the basis of division. The only way we can break through that message is to take it down the old-fashioned way: by talking to each other. The Women’s March was what all of us needed in order to remember that we are many and they are few,”
― The Women's March Organizers, Together We Rise: Behind the Scenes at the Protest Heard Around the World – A New York Times Bestseller and Oral History of the Women's March with Interviews and Essays

“This feeling of intentional inclusivity that I picked up on was so clearly ingrained in the DNA of the event, part of the intention.”
― The Women's March Organizers, Together We Rise: Behind the Scenes at the Protest Heard Around the World – A New York Times Bestseller and Oral History of the Women's March with Interviews and Essays

“Displays of solidarity go a long way in a world that’s become as fractured as ours.”
― The Women's March Organizers, Together We Rise: Behind the Scenes at the Protest Heard Around the World – A New York Times Bestseller and Oral History of the Women's March with Interviews and Essays

“We got knocked down as a nation, as a country, as a people, as individuals. But it’s not about getting knocked down. It’s about how you rise up.”
― The Women's March Organizers, Together We Rise: Behind the Scenes at the Protest Heard Around the World – A New York Times Bestseller and Oral History of the Women's March with Interviews and Essays

“WE MUST WORK HARDER TO MAKE PEOPLE AWARE THAT RACIAL BIAS AND GENDER BIAS CANNOT BE SEPARATED. THEY WORK TOGETHER.”
― The Women's March Organizers, Together We Rise: Behind the Scenes at the Protest Heard Around the World – A New York Times Bestseller and Oral History of the Women's March with Interviews and Essays

“A MAN WON THE WHITE HOUSE WITH ANGER AND HATE AND OUR KIDS WATCHED IT HAPPEN. NOW IT’S OUR JOB TO LET THEM WATCH US FIGHT BACK.”
― The Women's March Organizers, Together We Rise: Behind the Scenes at the Protest Heard Around the World – A New York Times Bestseller and Oral History of the Women's March with Interviews and Essays

“Trump’s tweeting a typo, “covfefe,” one night in May was the shining moment of the resistance for me. My response tweet, “Cause Only Very Fragile Egos Fear Equality,” was probably the easiest tweet that I’ve ever written.”
― The Women's March Organizers, Together We Rise: Behind the Scenes at the Protest Heard Around the World – A New York Times Bestseller and Oral History of the Women's March with Interviews and Essays

“That’s the kind of moral resistance people are yearning for. They’re yearning for unity and a sense of humanity that will give us the strength necessary to survive very difficult conditions. If we’re going to change the system, if we’re going to have economic and racial justice, it’s going to take resistance driven by compassion.”
― The Women's March Organizers, Together We Rise: Behind the Scenes at the Protest Heard Around the World – A New York Times Bestseller and Oral History of the Women's March with Interviews and Essays

“It was such a meaningful display of how our stories and journeys are woven together into a narrative of what it means to be a woman in America and how we are stronger together.”
― The Women's March Organizers, Together We Rise: Behind the Scenes at the Protest Heard Around the World – A New York Times Bestseller and Oral History of the Women's March with Interviews and Essays

“People showed up as their whole selves: Muslim, queer, black, female—all aspects of their identity were celebrated.”
― The Women's March Organizers, Together We Rise: Behind the Scenes at the Protest Heard Around the World – A New York Times Bestseller and Oral History of the Women's March with Interviews and Essays

“salud, dignidad y justicia—health, dignity, and justice.”
― The Women's March Organizers, Together We Rise: Behind the Scenes at the Protest Heard Around the World – A New York Times Bestseller and Oral History of the Women's March with Interviews and Essays

“(Latinx is the gender-neutral term we use to challenge the Spanish language’s gender binary.)”
― The Women's March Organizers, Together We Rise: Behind the Scenes at the Protest Heard Around the World – A New York Times Bestseller and Oral History of the Women's March with Interviews and Essays

“THE PRESIDENT IS NOT AMERICA. HIS CABINET IS NOT AMERICA . . . WE ARE AMERICA. AND WE ARE HERE TO STAY.”
― The Women's March Organizers, Together We Rise: Behind the Scenes at the Protest Heard Around the World – A New York Times Bestseller and Oral History of the Women's March with Interviews and Essays

“I think the one thing that the Women’s March definitely proved was that this was not a coastal movement. There were marches that happened in the heartland. Like Oklahoma City has never seen a march that is 15,000 people strong, right? That is unheard of. Kansas saw marches of like 8,000, 9,000 people. South Carolina. Some of the biggest marches were actually not on the coast. Chicago was the third largest, with over a quarter of a million people. Saint Paul, Minnesota, was over 100,000. So we broke records in all of the different cities that we were in.”
― The Women's March Organizers, Together We Rise: Behind the Scenes at the Protest Heard Around the World – A New York Times Bestseller and Oral History of the Women's March with Interviews and Essays

“We have to have our own network of healing.”
― The Women's March Organizers, Together We Rise: Behind the Scenes at the Protest Heard Around the World – A New York Times Bestseller and Oral History of the Women's March with Interviews and Essays

“the Unity Principles reflect all women and all their intersecting identities, which historically feminism has left out.”
― The Women's March Organizers, Together We Rise: Behind the Scenes at the Protest Heard Around the World – A New York Times Bestseller and Oral History of the Women's March with Interviews and Essays

“We disagree with each other, we have arguments, but at the end of the day there is no question that we are part of a movement family. I just hope that we can keep building on the network that we have so that the local chapters also learn and build that level of trust within their local community. Because this is how the movement is going to last and how it’s going to be truly effective—when our Unity Principles are truly being practiced in the work that we are doing”
― The Women's March Organizers, Together We Rise: Behind the Scenes at the Protest Heard Around the World – A New York Times Bestseller and Oral History of the Women's March with Interviews and Essays

“For high-profile women of color, there is no safety, no anonymity.”
― The Women's March Organizers, Together We Rise: Behind the Scenes at the Protest Heard Around the World – A New York Times Bestseller and Oral History of the Women's March with Interviews and Essays

“Many white women wanted to talk about “unity,” but without acknowledging our privilege; that erodes trust and then it all falls apart.”
― The Women's March Organizers, Together We Rise: Behind the Scenes at the Protest Heard Around the World – A New York Times Bestseller and Oral History of the Women's March with Interviews and Essays

“WE’RE MARCHING BECAUSE THE MOST POWERFUL MAN IN THE WORLD SAYS IT’S OK TO SEXUALLY ASSAULT WOMEN . . . AND WE SAY NO WAY.” YVETTE COOPER, LABOUR MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT”
― The Women's March Organizers, Together We Rise: Behind the Scenes at the Protest Heard Around the World – A New York Times Bestseller and Oral History of the Women's March with Interviews and Essays

“WHENEVER YOU FEEL IN DOUBT, WHENEVER YOU WANT TO GIVE UP, YOU MUST ALWAYS REMEMBER TO CHOOSE FREEDOM OVER FEAR.”
― The Women's March Organizers, Together We Rise: Behind the Scenes at the Protest Heard Around the World – A New York Times Bestseller and Oral History of the Women's March with Interviews and Essays

“IT’S INCOMPREHENSIBLE TO ME . . . HOW MILLIONS OF AMERICANS COULD VOTE AGAINST 11 MILLION IMMIGRANT FAMILIES.” HINA NAVEED, COFOUNDER, STATEN ISLAND DREAM COALITION”
― The Women's March Organizers, Together We Rise: Behind the Scenes at the Protest Heard Around the World – A New York Times Bestseller and Oral History of the Women's March with Interviews and Essays

“I truly believe those closest to the pain are closest to the solution, and black women will lead us to the solutions and to justice.”
― The Women's March Organizers, Together We Rise: Behind the Scenes at the Protest Heard Around the World – A New York Times Bestseller and Oral History of the Women's March with Interviews and Essays

“But I distinctly remember having conversations before the election with people who were telling me, “No, this will never happen,” and I remember saying, “It is a possibility. I think this country is that racist. It could happen. There are some really racist people in this country.”
― The Women's March Organizers, Together We Rise: Behind the Scenes at the Protest Heard Around the World – A New York Times Bestseller and Oral History of the Women's March with Interviews and Essays