Real Allyship: Pride Captions for Creators Who Actually Care

Quotes to Inspire Allyship

• “Where there is love, there is life.” — Mahatma Gandhi ✨📋
• “We declare that human rights are for all of us, all the time: whoever we are and wherever we are from; no matter our class, our opinions, our sexual orientation.” — Ban Ki-moon 🌍📋
• “Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.” — Amelia Earhart, “Courage” 🦅📋
• “It’s about finding your values, and committing to them. It’s about finding your North Star. It’s about making choices. Some are easy. Some are hard. And some will make you question everything.” — Tim Cook 🧭📋
• “Married is a magic word. And it is magic throughout the world. It has to do with our dignity as human beings, to be who we are openly.” — Edith Windsor 💖📋
• “Folks who were willing to endure bullying and taunts, and stayed strong, and came to believe in themselves and who they were, and slowly made an entire country realize that love is love.” — Barack Obama 🇺🇸📋
• “The love expressed between women is particular and powerful because we have had to love in order to live; love has been our survival.” — Audre Lorde, “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches” 💪📋
• “We’re all different in many ways and alike in many ways and special in some sort of way.” — Larry Kramer, “The Normal Heart & The Destiny of Me” 🫂📋
• “No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed.” — Billie Jean King 🏆📋
• “We struggle and fight for our joy — an unreserved and unapologetic joy that springs from our ability to live as we are. It’s a joy worth fighting for and it’s this joy that links all of our struggles together.” — Lady Phyll 🎉📋
• “The richness, beauty and depths of love can only be fully experienced in a climate of complete openness, honesty and vulnerability.” — Anthony Venn Brown 🌸📋
• “It takes no compromise to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no political deal to give people freedom. It takes no survey to remove repression.” — Harvey Milk ⚖️📋
• “You never completely have your rights, one person, until you all have your rights.” — Marsha P. Johnson ✊📋
• “We are all one — and if we don’t know it, we will learn it the hard way.” — Bayard Rustin 🤝📋
• “When are doing something that is right, you just do it and take care … someone has to do this.” — Alice Nkom ( •̀ᴗ•́ )و ̑̑📋
• “Courage is one thing that no one can ever take away from you.” — Chris Colfer, “The Wishing Spell” ✨📋
• “Every single American — gay, straight, lesbian, bisexual, transgender — every single American deserves to be treated equally in the eyes of the law and in the eyes of our society. It’s a pretty simple proposition.” — Barack Obama 🇺🇸📋
• “That nothing here is promised, not one day. And love is love is love is love is love is love is love cannot be killed or swept aside. Now fill the world with music, love and pride.” — Lin-Manuel Miranda 🎶📋
• “Family belongs to community, and community takes its cues from family. We need to go back to real community engagement that sees us as people. We need to take back our lives by engaging our families and educating our communities.” — Beverley Ditsie 🏘️📋
• “I am a firm believer that you don’t achieve greatness on your own. There is always someone there to lend a hand.” — Greg Louganis 🤝📋
• “When I dare to be powerful — to use my strength in the service of my vision — then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.” — Audre Lorde 🔥📋
• “I see each and every one of you. The things that make us different, those are our superpowers — every day when you walk out the door and put on your imaginary cape and go out there and conquer the world because the world would not be as beautiful as it is if we weren’t in it.” — Lena Waithe 🦸‍♀️📋
• “Rights are won only by those who make their voices heard.” — Harvey Milk, “The Harvey Milk Interviews: In His Own Words” 🗣️📋
• “The next generation is so far advanced over us … I love that a lot of younger people now come out that would never have come out in the old days. Of course, they are born into a community already. They just have to discover it, whereas we were still building it.” — Edith Windsor 🕰️📋
• “All men are created equal. No matter how hard they try, they can never erase those words.” — Harvey Milk, “The Harvey Milk Interviews: In His Own Words” 📜📋
• “Progress is unimaginably difficult, dangerous, always at risk, always made by people with only partial vision.” — Larry Kramer, “The Normal Heart and The Destiny of Me: Two Plays” 🚧📋
• “When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.” — Ellen DeGeneres, “Seriously… I’m Kidding” 🎢📋
• “A lot of my work is to stay grounded, is to stay spiritual. It is to disconnect from what other people say about me, but also to try and be connected to the joy and the love.” — Laverne Cox 🧘‍♀️📋
• “I see your true colors shining through / I see your true colors and that’s why I love you / So, don’t be afraid to let them show / Your true colors / True colors are beautiful / Like a rainbow.” — Cyndi Lauper, “True Colors” 🌈💖📋
• “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” – Martin Luther King Jr. 🗣️📋
• “I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.” – Audre Lorde ⛓️📋
• “You can’t control how other people receive your energy. Anything you do or say gets filtered through the lens of whatever they’re going through at the moment, which is not about you. Just keep doing your thing with as much integrity and love as possible.” – Nanea Hoffman ✨📋
• “Your true colors are beautiful, like a rainbow.” – Cyndi Lauper 🌈📋
• “Love is not something we give or receive; it’s something we nurture and grow.” – Brené Brown 🌱📋
• “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” – Rumi 💖📋
• “We are all under the same sky, and walk on the same earth; we are all one.” – Unknown 🌍📋
• “Our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender citizen of this country.” – Zachary Quinto 🚀📋