Gay Rights Quotes - Page 6

• No, I've never thought that I was gay. And that's not something you think. It's something you know.

  Robert Plant

  Gay, Thinking, Judging

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• Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over.

  Dan Savage

  War, Gay, Rights

  "Interview Issue: Dan Savage, Jane Lynch on 'It Gets Better,' Gay Bullying, 'Glee'". Interview with Jessica Bennett, www.newsweek.com. December 20, 2010.

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• You have to remember, rights don't come in groups we shouldn't have 'gay rights'; rights come as individuals, and we wouldn't have this major debate going on. It would be behavior that would count, not what person belongs to what group.

  Ron Paul

  Gay, Rights, Would Be

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• Rights mean you have a right to your life. You have a right to your liberty, and you should have a right to keep the fruits of your labor....I, in a way, don’t like to use those terms: gay rights, women’s rights, minority rights, religious rights. There’s only one type of right. It’s the right to your liberty.

  Ron Paul

  Religious, Mean, Gay

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• Like being a woman, like being a racial religious tribal or ethnic minority, being LGBT does not make you less human. And that is why gay rights are human rights and human rights are gay rights.

  Hillary Clinton

  Religious, Gay, Rights

  International Human Rights Day Address at Palais des Nations, delivered 6 December 2011, Geneva, Switzerland

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• As a married person myself, I don't know what it's like to be told I can't marry somebody I love, and want to marry, I can't imagine how that must feel. I definitely think we should all have the right to love, and love publicly, the people that we want to love.

  Carrie Underwood

  Gay, Thinking, People

  "Carrie Underwood: US country queen speaks out for gay marriage – but how will conservative fans take it?" by Guy Adams, www.independent.co.uk. June 8, 2012.

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• This moon man right here stands for a lot more. This is the most important record out of all of them. Gay rights are human rights, there is no separation.

  Macklemore

  Gay, Moon, Men

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• As a mother, I know that homosexuals cannot biologically reproduce children; therefore, they must recruit our children.

  Anita Bryant

  Mother, Children, Gay

  "HBO to Develop a Biopic About Anti-Gay Activist Anita Bryant" by Michael Sullivan, collider.com. February 02, 2010.

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• I'm not a gay rights activist.

  ASAP Rocky

  Gay, Rights, Activist

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• There can be people who feel one way about gay rights, another way about gay rights. There can be people who have different views on abortion. But we respect each other. I think we learn from each other. And we understand that ultimately we have the same values.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Gay, Thinking, Rights

  "Rudy Giuliani Under the GOP's Big Tent". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. August 31, 2004.

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• The single most important thing you can do politically for gay rights is to come out. Not to write a letter to your congressman but to come out.

  Barney Frank

  Writing, Gay, Rights

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• We have a contract for the delivery of the S-300s. We have supplied some of the components, but the delivery hasn't been completed. We have suspended it for now. But if we see that steps are taken that violate the existing international norms, we shall think how we should act in the future, in particular regarding supplies of such sensitive weapons to certain regions of the world.

  Vladimir Putin

  Taken, Gay, Thinking

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• President Obama hasn't been elected by the American people in order to be pleasant to Russia. And your humble servant hasn't been elected by the people of Russia to be pleasant to someone either. We work, we argue about some issues. We are human. Sometimes one of us gets vexed. But I would like to repeat once again that global mutual interests form a good basis for finding a joint solution to our problems.

  Vladimir Putin

  Humble, Gay, Russia

  "Putin warns West on Syria". www.politico.com. September 4, 2013.

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• There are some gestures, of course, that you can only interpret one way, but no one has ever seen those kinds of gestures directed by Obama at me or by me at Obama, and I hope that never happens. Everything else is fantasy.

  Vladimir Putin

  Gay, Gestures, Way

  "Vladimir Putin interview: Ten interesting things the Russian leader said". www.telegraph.co.uk. September 4, 2013.

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• They say that Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a homosexual. Truth be told, we don't love him because of that, but he was a great musician, and we all love his music. So what? I assure you that I work with these people. I sometimes award them with state prizes or decorations for their achievements in various fields. We have absolutely normal relations, and I don't see anything out of the ordinary here.

  Vladimir Putin

  Gay, Awards, Tchaikovsky

  "Tchaikovsky May Have Been Gay, Putin Reluctantly Admits" by • Alexander Abad-Santos, www.theatlantic.com. September 4, 2013.

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• Terrorists are always a threat to someone. If we'll be scared of them, it means they have won. But that doesn't mean we can have a devil-may-care attitude toward this threat. We must do everything to stop these threats and not give the terrorists a single chance to demonstrate their brutality and hatred of mankind.

  Vladimir Putin

  Attitude, Mean, Gay

  "Discrimination? We give prizes to gays, insists Russia’s Putin" by Lynn Berry, www.nbcnews.com. September 4, 2013.

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• This gentleman has taken on the very fashionable theme of fighting corruption and I say again: In order to fight corruption you have to be crystal clear yourself. But there are problems here, and in this regard I unfortunately have a suspicion that this is just a way of getting votes and not a genuine desire to solve the problem.

  Vladimir Putin

  Taken, Fighting, Gay

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• We should all be aware of the fact that when revolutionary - not evolutionary - changes come, things can get even worse. The intelligentsia should be aware of this. And it is the intelligentsia specifically that should keep this in mind and prevent society from radical steps and revolutions of all kinds. We've had enough of it. We've seen so many revolutions and wars. We need decades of calm and harmonious development.

  Vladimir Putin

  War, Gay, Mind

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• Senate Bill 1062 does not address a specific or present concern related to religious liberty in Arizona. I have not heard one example in Arizona where a business owner’s religious liberty has been violated. The bill was broadly worded - and could result in unintended and negative consequences. After weighing all the arguments I have vetoed Senate Bill 1062 moments ago.

  Jan Brewer

  Religious, Gay, Liberty

  "Jan Brewer: 'So Is Nondiscrimination'" by Hendrik Hertzberg, www.newyorker.com. February 27, 2014.

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• I appreciate the decision made by Gov. Brewer to veto this legislation. I hope that we can now move on from this controversy and assure the American people that everyone is welcome to live, work and enjoy our beautiful State of Arizona.

  John McCain

  Beautiful, Moving, Gay

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• I respect the Governor's position to veto SB1062, especially in light of the concerns brought up over the past week. I understand the concerns of people of good faith on all sides of this issue.

  Andy Tobin

  Gay, Past, Light

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• We actually have some gay people that work with us, and we have a lot of friends that are gay, too, and I know that this song has inspired them... I know that coming out was tough on their parents and on them and the whole entire family. For a long time, some of them didn't get to hear 'I love you' from their dads or be accepted in that way. ... It's helped a lot of our friends... We don't judge anybody's lives.

  Martha Stewart

  Song, Dad, Love You

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• Equality is truly sweet.

  Kristin Chenoweth

  Sweet, Gay

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• The government has to treat all citizens equally. I am a strong supporter not of a weak version of civil unions, but of a strong version, in which the rights that are conferred at the federal level to persons who are part of the same-sex union are compatible. When it comes to federal rights, the over 1,100 rights that right now are not being given to same-sex couples, I think that's unacceptable.

  Barack Obama

  Strong, Sex, Couple

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• "Undecided," while running for re-election to state Senate in 1998, in response to an Outlines questionnaire asking, "Do you favor legalizing same-sex marriage?"

  Barack Obama

  Running, Sex, Gay

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