Gay Rights Quotes - Page 7

• I favor legalizing same-sex marriages, and would fight efforts to prohibit such marriages.

  Barack Obama

  Sex, Fighting, Gay

  "Obama's past statements on same-sex marriage". www.foxnews.com. May 9, 2012.

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• In the first two years this is a man [Clinton] who tried his best to balance the budget, to reform health care, to fight for gay rights, to support personal freedoms. Couldn’t those be considered doing the right things, evidence of true character?

  Bryant Gumbel

  Character, Fighting, Gay

  "Welfare Reform: Pray for the Children?". MSNBC's "InterNight" with David Maraniss, archive.mrc.org. October 10, 1996.

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• Gay rights and human rights are one and the same.

  Hillary Clinton

  Gay, Rights, Lgbt

  "Hillary Clinton's global legacy on gay rights" by Frida Ghitis, www.cnn.com. February 7, 2013.

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• Our role as artist is more controversial now because there are those, claiming the absolute authority of religion, who detest much of our work as much as they detest most of our politics. Instead of rationally debating subjects like abortion or gay rights, they condemn as immoral those who favor choice and tolerance. They disown their own dark side and magnify everyone else's until, at the extreme, doctors are murdered in the name of protecting life. I wonder, who is this God they invoke, who is so petty and mean? Is God really against gun control and food stamps for poor children?

  Barbra Streisand

  Children, Mean, Dark

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• I told him last Monday that I felt the way things were going it was unlikely that I would be able to vote for the legislation.

  Lucinda Creighton

  Monday, Gay, Would Be

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• I'm saying it loud: I'm a Republican who supports gay rights.

  Mark McKinnon

  Gay, Rights, Support

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• If I was courting the Muslim vote, I wouldn't have put establishing the partnership ceremony at the forefront of my first term, would I? I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.

  Ken Livingstone

  Gay, Rights, London

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• If you ask me about my views on the environment, on women's rights, on gay rights, I am liberal. I don't have a problem with that at all. Some of my best friends are liberal.

  Bernie Sanders

  Gay, Rights, Views

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm for all kinds of gay rights. I'm almost like a gay man myself.

  NeNe Leakes

  Gay, Men, Rights

  "EXCLUSIVE: NeNe Leakes on 'The New Normal,' Gay Rights and Her 'Glam-Baby'". Interview with Derrick Bryson Taylor, www.essence.com. September 11, 2012.

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• In an essay 10 years ago, I pointed out that it is utterly logical for polygamy rights to follow gay rights. After all, if traditional marriage is defined as the union of (1) two people of (2) opposite gender, and if, as advocates of gay marriage insist, the gender requirement is nothing but prejudice, exclusion and an arbitrary denial of one's autonomous choices in love, then the first requirement - the number restriction (two and only two) - is a similarly arbitrary, discriminatory and indefensible denial of individual choice.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Gay, Individual Choice, Two

  "Pandora and Polygamy". jewishworldreview.com. March 17, 2006.

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• I'm pro-choice. I'm pro-gay rights.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Gay, Rights, Choices

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The success [of the X-Men], I think, is for two reasons. The first is that, creatively, the book was close to perfect ... but the other reason is that it was a book about being different in a culture where, for the first time in the West, being different wasn't just accepted, but was also fashionable. I don't think it's a coincidence that gay rights, black rights, the empowerment of women and political correctness all happened over those twenty years and a book about outsiders trying to be accepted was almost the poster-boy for this era in American culture.

  Mark Millar

  Book, Gay, Men

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• Joe Biden will speak to the nation's largest gay rights group during a human rights convention on Friday. Then on Saturday, he is scheduled to speak to them again to apologize for whatever he said in Friday's speech.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Friday, Gay, Rights

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• One thing the gay rights movement taught the world is the importance of being visible.

  Charles M. Blow

  Gay, Rights, Movement

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• I think it's ridiculous that we even have to talk about gay rights as rights...It's gonna be as shocking as the treatment of slaves someday.

  Regina Spektor

  Gay, Thinking, Rights

  "What Regina Spektor Sees From the Cheap Seats". Interview with Hannah Levintova, www.motherjones.com. May 2012.

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• Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim.

  Tim Field

  Meaningful, Being Yourself, Bullying

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• It is at least a small comfort to me, as a gay rights and marriage equality advocate, to know that like any marriage, gay and lesbian couples are subject to the same complications and hardships that afflict marriages between heterosexual couples.

  Gene Robinson

  Couple, Gay, Rights

  "First openly gay bishop Gene Robinson announces divorce from husband" by Martin Pengelly, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2014.

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• Loads of my friends are gay, I don't see myself in any sense as being opposed to gay rights, but I did express a view before the election - which by the way was also expressed by the party but then they changed their mind - that we didn't support gay marriage which is, I suppose for some, the ultimate destination, but not for everybody.

  Lucinda Creighton

  Party, Gay, Rights

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• ... I think Finance is the one that everybody aspires to, who's serious in politics, because that's where the real decisions are taken and I think it's a fascinating portfolio.

  Lucinda Creighton

  Real, Taken, Gay

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• As for that footage, video footage showing the dead children allegedly killed in the chemical attack, it is horrible. The question is only who did it and what they did, and who is responsible for this. These pictures do not answer the questions I have just posed. There is an opinion that it's a compilation by these very rebels, who are connected with al-Qaida and who were always distinguished by exceptional brutality.

  Vladimir Putin

  Children, Gay, Rebel

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• I do not exclude this, but I would like to draw your attention to one absolutely key aspect: In line with international law, only the U.N. Security Council can sanction the use of force against a sovereign state. Any other pretext or method which might be used to justify the use of force against an independent sovereign state is inadmissible and can only be interpreted as an aggression.

  Vladimir Putin

  Independent, Gay, Keys

  "G20: Russia says it will consider Syria military action but needs more proof". "AM", www.abc.net.au. September 5, 2013.

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• I have no interest or desire to be head of Fine Gael.... I am ambitious for my country and I always said I would love to sit at Cabinet.

  Lucinda Creighton

  Country, Gay, Desire

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• She later said: "If the Irish people vote in favour of gay marriage then I'll vote for gay marriage in the Oireachtas in order to recognise that position, but at the moment that is not recognised by the Constitution."

  Lucinda Creighton

  Gay, Order, People

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• I have many gay friends who don't support gay marriage either.

  Lucinda Creighton

  Gay, Support, Gay Marriage

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• Representatives of the American intelligence agencies - and I hope they won't be angry - but they could have been more professional, and the diplomats as well. After they found out that he was flying to us, and that he was flying as a transit passenger, there was pressure from all sides - from the Americans, from the Europeans - instead of just letting him go to a country where they could operate easily.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Gay, Agency

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