Marsha P. Johnson
Marsha P. Johnson

As long as gay people don't have their rights all across America, there's no reason for celebration.

Marsha P. Johnson
Marsha P. Johnson

I don't know what I am if I'm not a woman.

Marsha P. Johnson
Marsha P. Johnson

We just were saying no more police brutality. And we had enough of police harassment in the Village and other places.

Marsha P. Johnson
Marsha P. Johnson

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

Marsha P. Johnson
Marsha P. Johnson

How many years has it taken people to realize that we are all brothers and sisters and human beings in the human race? I mean how many years does it take people to see that? We're all in this rat race together!

Marsha P. Johnson
Marsha P. Johnson

I may be crazy, but that don't make me wrong.

Marsha P. Johnson
Marsha P. Johnson

You never completely have your rights, one person, until you all have your rights.

Marsha P. Johnson
Marsha P. Johnson

Darling, I want my gay rights now.

Marsha P. Johnson
Marsha P. Johnson

STAR is a very revolutionary group. We believe in picking up the gun, starting a revolution if necessary. Our main goal is to see gay people liberated and free and have equal rights that other people have in America.

Marsha P. Johnson
Marsha P. Johnson

I think if transvestites don't stand up for themselves, nobody else is going to stand up for transvestites.

Marsha P. Johnson
Marsha P. Johnson

I'll always be known reaching out to young people who have no one to help them out, so I help them out with a place to stay or some food to eat or some change for their pocket.

Marsha P. Johnson
Marsha P. Johnson

A drag queen is one that usually goes to a ball and that's the only time she gets dressed up. Transvestites live in drag. A transsexual spends most of her life in drag.

Marsha P. Johnson
Marsha P. Johnson

I don't think you should be ashamed of anybody that you know that has AIDS. You should stand as close to them as you can and help them out as much as you can. I'm a strong believer in that and that's why I try to do that for everyone I know that has the virus.

Marsha P. Johnson
Marsha P. Johnson

I'm still stuck in the Stonewall in 1968. I never left the Stonewall.

Marsha P. Johnson
Marsha P. Johnson

I was no one, nobody from Nowheresville, until I became a drag queen.

Marsha P. Johnson
Marsha P. Johnson

I started out with makeup in 1963, 1964. And in 1965, I was coming out more, and I was still wearing makeup, but I was still going to jail just for wearing makeup.

Marsha P. Johnson
Marsha P. Johnson

Now they got two little nice statues in Chariot Park to remember the gay movement. How many people have died for these two little statues to be put in the park for them to recognize gay people?

Marsha P. Johnson
Marsha P. Johnson

A lot of times I've reached my hand out to people in the gay community that just didn't have nobody to help them when they were down and out.

Marsha P. Johnson
Marsha P. Johnson

Usually, I wear a short dress every day of the week.

Marsha P. Johnson
Marsha P. Johnson

In 1969, I started wearing female attire full-time.