35 Pride Month Quotes to Share With Your Community

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

Equality means more than passing laws. The struggle is really won in the hearts and minds of the community, where it really counts.

To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.

For years I tried to put myself in a box, and it frustrated me, so I had to let go and let the universe take its course.

Sometimes a breakdown can be the beginning of a kind of breakthrough, a way of living in advance through a trauma that prepares you for a future of radical transformation.

There are two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I would rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me.

We deserve to experience love fully, equally, without shame and without compromise.

Hate never wins out in the end. It instead goes always to its lonely, dusty end.

The rainbow flag is a symbol of freedom and liberation that we made for ourselves.

We will not win our rights by staying quietly in our closets.

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

This pervasive idea that trans women deserve violence needs to be abolished. It’s a socially sanctioned practice of blaming the victim. We must begin blaming our culture, which stigmatizes, demeans and strips trans women of their humanity.

In this life, you have to be your own hero.

Everyone should be able to express themselves in the way that best suits them - life is too short to spend it unhappy.

This community has fought and continues to fight a war of acceptance, a war of tolerance, with the most relentless bravery. You are the definition of courage.

Beyond ‘truth’ and ‘trans,’ one of the big Ts for me would probably be ‘trying.’ As long as we're trying, I think that goes a long way.

It’s called Pride, not hide. Everybody, more than ever, is wearing their hearts on their sleeves and wearing their messages on their backs. I think we all know what’s up. We all can feel it right now. It’s time to represent and it’s time to persist and keep going. There’s progress to be made and we’re moving forward.

History isn't something you look back at and say it was inevitable. It happens because people make decisions that are sometimes very impulsive, but those moments are cumulative realities.

I'm gay. I just didn't think it was anybody's business.

The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you what you've just told them.