Cleve Jones Quotes - Page 2

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• When I was saving pills to kill myself, I thought there was no hope. I thought my life was over because I was a homosexual.

  Cleve Jones

  Pills, Saving, No Hope

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I was bullied pretty badly especially in middle school. High school was not as bad as middle school, but I was not a macho kid at all. And the kids saw me as different from a very, very early age.

  Cleve Jones

  School, Kids, Age

  Source: www.npr.org

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• We spend countless hours talking about people's feelings and issues that aren't going to change anything.

  Cleve Jones

  Talking, Issues, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I am old school, I joined the gay liberation movement in 1972. If you had told me in 1972 that in the year 2009 I would be campaigning for the right to join the army or get married I think I would have started dating women at that time.

  Cleve Jones

  Old School, Army, Gay

  Source: www.bilerico.com

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• Any social movement that seeks to benefit only its own members I think is a shallow movement and probably doomed to failure.

  Cleve Jones

  Thinking, Movement, Benefits

  Source: www.bilerico.com

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• The subset of our population that has not benefited from the advancement of medication is black and brown people.

  Cleve Jones

  People, Black, Advancement

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Even in my town, even in San Francisco, thousands of gay men were arrested usually using entrapment techniques every single year for sexual behavior between consenting adults. That continued well into the 1970s until it was finally decriminalized in 1976, I believe.

  Cleve Jones

  Believe, Gay, Men

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Most of the young people I know are working so hard, 60 or 70 hours a week. They have no time for recreation or love affairs; it's just work and struggle. I want them to endure, and find that strength and be able to continue.

  Cleve Jones

  Struggle, People, Want

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Everybody will always find some way of diminishing your work, but it's all a lie!

  Cleve Jones

  Lying, Way

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The joy with which we denigrate each others' efforts, I hate that.

  Cleve Jones

  Hate, Effort, Joy

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Since the industrial revolution, cities, and especially the inner cities, were the places for the newly arrived. Voluntary immigrants seeking economic betterment, refugees, the bohemians, the artists - all of those people were crammed into densely populated neighborhoods and tenements. And as people climbed up the economic ladder they moved out, which really accelerated with the "white flight" phenomenon in the '60s and '70s.

  Cleve Jones

  Artist, Cities, White

  "Legendary LGBT Activist Wants You to Get Up and Fight". Interview with Alexander Sammon, www.motherjones.com. December 6, 2016.

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• I get to interact with a bunch of young people that are up against despair constantly.

  Cleve Jones

  People, Despair, Bunch

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Film really is a collaborative art.

  Cleve Jones

  Art, Film

  Source: www.knightatthemovies.com

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• What people haven't quite grasped yet is that the rich are transforming cities all across the world.

  Cleve Jones

  Cities, People, World

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The penalties for homosexual conduct were - would vary from state to state, but they were - it was a felony in most states punishable with prison terms of varying lengths.

  Cleve Jones

  Prison, Penalties, Length

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I have no personal desire to get married whatsoever and I certainly have no desire to be a soldier. I'm old school, I'm from gay liberation, we wanted to end war forever and smash the patriarchy and these are values I still hold dear but, I believe that any person who wants to get married should have that right and I know that Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual people serve with distinction in the armed forces, and that when they are killed, supposedly serving our country in these wars, that I personally do not support, their partners back home do not receive death benefits.

  Cleve Jones

  Country, War, Believe

  Source: www.bilerico.com

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• If you're gonna build units for the rich, you're gonna build units for the poor.

  Cleve Jones

  Rich, Poor, Units

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• There are places in America that have not just protected middle-class neighborhoods but reduced homelessness. Even places like Houston have been able to reduce homelessness among veterans. It's a pretty shameful situation.

  Cleve Jones

  Class, America, Houston

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• I don't have any hobbies! I don't golf, I can't imagine what I would do if I retired other than get fat.

  Cleve Jones

  Golf, Hobbies, Imagine

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• People's lives can be transformed by the movement.

  Cleve Jones

  People, Movement, Transformed

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I saw great hope in the Sanders campaign - a flawed candidate, not perfect, but pretty damn close. Millions of young people were inspired by him.

  Cleve Jones

  People, Perfect, Campaigns

  "Legendary LGBT Activist Wants You to Get Up and Fight". Interview With Alexander Sammon, www.motherjones.com. December 6, 2016.

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• I recently heard young people talking about collective bargaining agreements - I hadn't heard young people use that phrase in forever!

  Cleve Jones

  Agreement, Talking, People

  "Legendary LGBT Activist Wants You to Get Up and Fight". Interview With Alexander Sammon, www.motherjones.com. December 6, 2016.

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• Most people do not have access to medication.

  Cleve Jones

  People, Medication, Access

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The whole function of cities has been transformed.

  Cleve Jones

  Cities, Function, Whole

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The sense of urgency has almost completely vanished.

  Cleve Jones

  Sense Of Urgency, Urgency

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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