Just a day after Donald Trump took the Presidential office, millions of men and women marched the streets of Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., New York, Chicago, Dallas, San Francisco, Denver, St. Louis and many other states, cities and countries around the world, to stand together, protect and advocate human and women’s rights. The Women’s March was joined by many celebrities in support of the act, taking to the podium with wise and inspirational words. Here is what some of the speakers had to say…
Actress Scarlett Johansson
“President Trump, I did not vote for you. That said, I respect that you are you our President-elect and I want to be able to support you. But first I ask that you support me, support my sister, support my mother, support my best friends and all of all girlfriends. Support the men and women here today that are anxiously awaiting to see how your next moves may drastically affect their lives. Support my daughter who may actually, as a result of the appointments you have made, grow up in a county that is moving backwards, not forward, and who may potentially not have the right to make choices for her body and her future that your daughter Ivanka has been privileged to have.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaDr30_wWo8
Actress America Ferrera
“Our dignity, our character, our rights have all been under attack, and a platform of hate and division assumed power yesterday. But the president is not America. His cabinet is not America. Congress is not America. We are America. And we are here to stay.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrQt0J4hWj4
Director Michael Moore
“I woke up this morning and the [Washington Post] headline read, ‘Trump takes power.’ I don’t think so. Here’s the power. Here’s the majority of America, right here. We are the majority.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgduM2kH_DY
Singer Madonna
“Welcome to the revolution of love. To the rebellion. To our refusal as women to accept this new age of tyranny. Where not just women are in danger but all marginalized people. Where people uniquely different might be considered a crime. It took us this darkness to wake us the f*** up… I choose love. Are you with me? Say this with me: We choose love.”
Singer Alicia Keys
“We will not allow our bodies to be owned and controlled by men in government or any men anywhere for that matter. We will not allow our compassionate souls to get stepped on. We want the best for all Americans. No hate. No bigotry. No Muslim registry. We value education, healthcare and equality.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amhF7smSUfw
CNN Political Commentator Van Jones
“They came to this town yesterday. They had red hats on. They were proud of their accomplishment. And they thought they had taken America back. What they never counted on was a million women in pink hats that are going to take America forward.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHvQ_wtdfgY
Singer Janelle Monáe
“It was woman that gave you Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. It was woman that gave you Malcolm X. And according to the Bible, it was a woman that gave you Jesus. Don’t you ever forget it.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMPDl314k0U
Actress and Political Activist Ashley Judd
“I’m not nasty like the combo of Trump and Pence being served up to me in the voting booth. I’m nasty like the battles my grandmothers fought to get me into that voting booth.”
Author and Civil Rights Activist Angela Davis
“At a challenging moment in our history, let us remind ourselves that we the hundreds of thousands, the millions of women, trans-people, men and youth who are here at the Women’s March, we represent the powerful forces of change that are determined to prevent the dying cultures of racism, hetero-patriarchy from rising again.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjhcRjB6qI4