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Theresa Sparks Quotes

born 1949 United States

Theresa Sparks (born April 4, 1949) is the Executive Director of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission and was a candidate for San Francisco Supervisor for District 6 in the November 2010 election. She is a former president of the San Francisco Police Commission and former CEO of Good Vibrations.

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Random Theresa Sparks quote

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"Our community is organized, it’s strong, it’s paying attention and it needs to ensure a place at the political table, now and for future generations of transgender leaders."

The Transgender Community Needs to Reestablish Its Voice (2005)

"We need to continue to educate our elected officials and candidates for office on who we are, what we need and why they should stand in solidarity with us."

The Transgender Community Needs to Reestablish Its Voice (2005)

"[The gay community can] fight for our rightful voice, or we can continue to … slap one another and one day find ourselves without the electoral base to sustain the voice we already have."

"The lack of political attention to candidates and issues, history has shown us, is a sure-fire way to end up left out of the policy debates altogether."

The Transgender Community Needs to Reestablish Its Voice (2005)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Theresa Sparks (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.