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Sylvia Rivera on the fight for trans liberation

We have to do it because we can no longer stay invisible. We have to be visible.
Sylvia Rivera[1]
I am not a man. I am not a woman. I am not a transgender person. I am a human being.
Sylvia Rivera[6]
The system is not designed to protect us, but we will protect ourselves.
Sylvia Rivera[6]
I am not even in the back of the bus. My community is being pulled by a rope around our neck.
Sylvia Rivera[3][4]
The people are trying to do something for all of us, and not men and women that belong to a white middle class white club.
Sylvia Rivera[4][5]