You are given a sentence in Spanish. Your job is to translate the Spanish sentence into English.

No somos flores, somos chispas de cambio. "" Para cuando llegué a Pekín en 1995, estaba claro para mí que la única manera de alcanzar la igualdad de género era volcar siglos de tradición opresora.
We are not flowers, we are sparks of change. "" By the time I got to Beijing in 1995, it was clear to me, the only way to achieve gender equality was to overturn centuries of oppressive tradition.