Gay Rights Quotes - Page 5

• Jewish voters care. They want someone who's good on Israel and who's good on Jewish issues. But they also want somebody who's going to be pro-choice and pro-gun control and pro-gay rights. To the vast majority of the Jewish community, just being good on Israel or on Jewish issues is not enough.

  Charles Schumer

  Gay, Gun, Issues

  Source: www.questia.com

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• If you listen to the debate, [Barack Obama] and [John] McCain said the same thing about gay rights.

  Bill Ayers

  Gay, Rights, Debate

  Source: thepointmag.com

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• [John] McCain seemed to be winking to the Right, and [Barack] Obama seemed to be winking to the Left. Neither one of them - if McCain had been elected we'd still be where we are on gay rights.

  Bill Ayers

  Gay, Rights, Winking

  Source: thepointmag.com

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• Even there, [Barack] Obama's generals, his Pentagon, they're telling him what to do. And the force for gay rights is inevitable. And you can say Obama will help us, and maybe he will, but only if we have something on the ground that will make him help us. Frankly, the gay movement on the ground has been one of the great propulsive things that has made politicians do what they do.

  Bill Ayers

  Gay, Rights, Movement

  Source: thepointmag.com

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• I oftentimes receive the question, "What do you think is the most important social issue to focus on?" Or, "What's the most important component of identity? Is it gay rights or race or feminism?" And I'm like, "Well, they're all intertwined. It's all one conversation at the end of the day. You can't just pick one." I mean, people experience all kinds of prejudice because of all different parts of themselves. And that doesn't make one part more important than the other.

  Amandla Stenberg

  Mean, Gay, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The gay rights movement of recent years has been an inspiring victory for humanity and it is in the tradition of the civil rights movement when I was a young boy in the South, the women's suffrage movement when my mother was a young woman in Tennessee, the abolition movement much farther back, and the anti-apartheid movement when I was in the House of Representatives. All of these movements have one thing in common: the opposition to progress was rooted in an outdated understanding of morality.

  Al Gore

  Mother, Gay, Boys

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation. What's done in private between adults doesn't concern the Criminal Code.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Gay, Adults, Criminals

  Interview, Ottawa, 22 Dec. 1967

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• I could never be a politician. But as uncomfortable as I would be doing so, I have no problem with Obama's long-planned 'change of heart.' This dude's made huge, measurable strides for gay rights, and if being coy about his plans for gay marriage for a few years was needed to get him elected, then so be it. LGBT persons will be better off, and federal same-sex marriage recognition will come sooner because of it.

  Barack Obama

  Sex, Heart, Gay

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• The individual has always to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Being Yourself, Lonely, Loneliness

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• There are a lot of people that form movements around particular commitments, like gay rights. It is important, but it does not link easily to, say, economic rights, and it often looks like it's opposed to them. The attempt to bring these together has yet to be done in a truly effective way, and I think it can be.

  Noam Chomsky

  Commitment, Gay, Thinking

  Source: pennpoliticalreview.org

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• Gay rights is not something most of us think about - because most of us happen to have been born straight.

  Jodi Picoult

  Gay, Thinking, Rights

  "A conversation with Jodi about Sing You Home". www.jodipicoult.com.

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• By in large in this country the issue of gay rights and equality should be past the point of debate. Really, there should be no debate anymore.

  Scott Fujita

  Country, Gay, Past

  "“Why I Support the National Equality March”: NFL’s Scott Fujita Speaks Out for Gay Rights". Interview with Dave Zirin, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.

  Kate Clinton

  Gay, Lgbt, Mouths

  FaceBook post by Kate Clinton from Jun 24, 2014

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• The gay rights movement is not a party. It is not a lifestyle. It is not a hair style. It is not a fad or a fringe or a sickness. It is not about sin or salvation. The gay rights movement is an integral part of the American promise of freedom.

  Urvashi Vaid

  Party, Gay, Rights

  At the March on Washington, April 25, 1993.

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• If you have laws and legislation that ban certain things based on the principles of the Scriptures and based on your Christian background, then let it stand there. Who is having big debates with the Islamic people about it (gay rights)? Who is telling them to bend their laws? If your laws are based on your Christian points of view, then you must stand your ground?

  Bishop Noel Jones

  Christian, Islamic, Gay

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• If gays are granted rights, next we'll have to give rights to prostitutes and to people who sleep with St. Bernards and to nail biters.

  Anita Bryant

  Sleep, Gay, Rights

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

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• No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love

  Rita Mae Brown

  Gay, Lgbt Pride, Government

  1982 Speech, 28 Aug, at the opening ceremony of the Gay Olympics, San Francisco.

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• I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.

  Ken Livingstone

  Gay, Rights, London

  "Ken Livingstone: 'This isn't a race to elect a chat-show host'". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2012.

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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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• I think Enda Kenny has shown himself to be a good leader in the sense that he can accept that people might have differences of opinion with him, but at the same time can see that it's useful to have them involved and part of the team and I very much appreciate that.

  Lucinda Creighton

  Team, Gay, Thinking

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

  Tim Field

  Meaningful, Being Yourself, Bullying

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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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• If you believe in equal rights, then what do “women’s rights,” “gay rights,” etc., mean? Either they are redundant or they are violations of the principle of equal rights for all.

  Thomas Sowell

  Believe, Mean, Gay

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