Latest Cleve Jones Quotes from Interviews

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• I believe we are entering into a period of political chaos. Out of that chaos is the potential for great evil, but there is also the possibility of great good.

  Cleve Jones

  Believe, Evil, Political

  Source: www.thewrap.com

• I don't blame younger generations for their lack of awareness. Americans in general are not interested in history.

  Cleve Jones

  Generations, Blame, Awareness

  Source: www.thewrap.com

• 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

• 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

• During those days when you're exhausted and during those days when you're frustrated, during those days when you're being attacked by your own people for doing what you think is right, remember you're part of a progression that goes back a long time of ordinary people who are doing their best to make it a better world.

  Cleve Jones

  Thinking, Remember You, Remembers You

  Source: www.bilerico.com

• 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

• I go back to the parallels with 1963, 1964 when white America really became aware of the brutality of segregation, the cruelty of the apartheid system which existed in the south. Then white people began to get on the freedom buses and travel to the south and be part of the voter registration drives and they... some of them were beaten and some of them were murdered but they stood with the African-American community and the civil rights movement. It's time for straight people to do that today and it is time for gay people to insist that they do that today.

  Cleve Jones

  Gay, White, America

  Source: www.bilerico.com

• I do believe that non-violent civil disobedience is a very important and useful tactic.

  Cleve Jones

  Believe, Important, Tactics

  Source: www.bilerico.com

• I think support of the straight community is very important and I think there has been a profound shift in public opinion seen reflected in many ways. We do not need straight people to speak for us but we do want straight people to stand with us.

  Cleve Jones

  Thinking, People, Profound

  Source: www.bilerico.com

• I am tired of fighting state by state, county by county, city by city, for fractions of equality. I am tired of compromises and I am tired of the strategy that divides us from each other. It is time for us to unite across state boundaries in a truly nationwide movement to win full, actual equality, which can only come from the federal government. That's not my opinion. That's a fact.

  Cleve Jones

  Tired, Fighting, Winning

  Source: www.bilerico.com

• If we [gays] want to be equal under the law, we must now - as the great heroes of the Civil Rights movement of 1963 and 1964 showed us - turn our attention to the federal government.

  Cleve Jones

  Hero, Gay, Law

  Source: www.bilerico.com

• Film really is a collaborative art.

  Cleve Jones

  Art, Film

  Source: www.knightatthemovies.com

• If I had to say what my one greatest achievement is, it's that I lasted, and I'm still happy. I hope that comes through.

  Cleve Jones

  Achievement, Stills, Greatest Achievement

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• 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

• This is a terrible time to be young, I think. It's really hard.

  Cleve Jones

  Thinking, Terrible Times, Young

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• 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

• 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

• Dealing with Hollywood and commercial entertainment, you always have to worry that the political message is going to be skewed or obscured.

  Cleve Jones

  Worry, Political, Hollywood

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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

  Cleve Jones

  Hate, Effort, Joy

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• People who say that violence doesn't accomplish anything have not read history. I don't celebrate that reality, but there you have it.

  Cleve Jones

  Reality, People, Violence

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• Marches work, rallies work, civil disobedience works, direct action works, voting works, writing letters works, speaking to churches and schools works, rioting works.

  Cleve Jones

  Writing, School, Direct Action

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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

  Cleve Jones

  Lying, Way

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• The majority of new infections in America are among young gay and bisexual men of color, and the full resources that could be brought to bear simply are not.

  Cleve Jones

  Gay, Bisexual, Men

• I think that a big part of the energy that was going into fighting AIDS was reduced when we saw that more of the new infections were among our black and brown young people. That's a sad truth to have to claim, but I believe it's true.

  Cleve Jones

  Believe, Fighting, Thinking

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• 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