Today, we have to fight back against the government. We have to fight them back. They’re cutting back Medicaid, cutting back on medicine for people with AIDS. They want to take away from women on welfare and put them into that little work program. They’re going to cut SSI.
Now they’re taking away food stamps. These people who want the cuts — these people are making millions and millions and millions of dollars as CEOs.
— Sylvia Rivera interviewed by Leslie Feinberg, July 1998 (via forthelivingandthedead)