Lgbt Quotes - Page 7

• What would you be like if you were the only person in the world? If you want to be truly happy you must be that person.

  Quentin Crisp

  Inspirational, Want, World

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• I support ensuring that committed gay couples have the same rights and responsibilities afforded to any married couple in this country. I believe strongly in stopping laws designed to take rights away and passing laws that extend equal rights to gay couples. I've required all agencies in the federal government to extend as many federal benefits as possible to LGBT families as the current law allows. And I've called on Congress to repeal the so-called Defense of Marriage Act and to pass the Domestic Partners Benefits and Obligations Act.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Couple, Believe

  "In His Own Words: President Obama's Nuanced View on Gay Marriage". Remarks At Human Rights Camapign Dinner, www.foxnews.com. October 10, 2009.

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• My own country's record on human rights for gay people is far from perfect.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Gay, Rights

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

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• Once again, we are thrilled to be hosting this amazing gathering for LGBT families from across the country. Our families are an important part of the LGBT civil rights battle and they are on the frontlines of educating Americans about the reality of our lives. It is important to give parents and their children a safe place to gather, an opportunity to re-energize and access to the tools we need to create a more just society. I invite everyone who cares about equality for all families to be a part of this historic week.

  Jennifer Chrisler

  Country, Children, Opportunity

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• Costs are incurred whenever any group is treated as lesser or the other, whether they are women, racial, or religious minorities, or the LGBT.

  Hillary Clinton

  Religious, Groups, Minorities

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

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• Violence toward women isn't cultural; it's criminal.

  Hillary Clinton

  Criminals, Violence

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

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• What was once justified as sanctioned by God is now properly reviled as an unconscionable violation of human rights.

  Hillary Clinton

  Violation Of Human Rights, Justified, Humans

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

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• I think there's a tremendous sense of complacency in the LGBT community. AIDS has lost the edge of horror it possessed when it swept through the world in the '80s. Today's generation sees it more as something to live with and something to be much less fearful of. And that comes with a sense of, dare I say, laziness. We need to be really vigilant and open about the fact that these drugs are not to be taken to increase our ability to have recreational sex.

  Zachary Quinto

  Sex, Taken, Thinking

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• It is because the human experience is universal that human rights are universal.

  Hillary Clinton

  Rights, Human Experience, Humans

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

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• No one has ever abandoned a belief because he was forced to do so.

  Hillary Clinton

  Belief, Abandoned

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

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• While we are each free to believe whatever we choose, we cannot do whatever we choose.

  Hillary Clinton

  Believe

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

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• Laws that require equal protections reinforce the moral imperative of equality.

  Hillary Clinton

  Law, Moral, Protection

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

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• It is often the case that laws must change before fears about change dissipate.

  Hillary Clinton

  Law, Cases

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

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• Often those who are denied rights are least empowered to bring about the changes they seek.

  Hillary Clinton

  Rights, Empowered, Denied

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

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• Acting alone, minorities can never achieve the majorities necessary for political change.

  Hillary Clinton

  Political, Acting, Majority

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

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• When any part of humanity is sidelined, the rest of us cannot sit on the sidelines.

  Hillary Clinton

  Humanity, Sidelines

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

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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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• Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheeps and goats. Not all things are black nor all things white. It is a fundamental of taxonomy that nature rarely deals with discrete categories. Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeon-holes. The living world is a continuum in each and every one of its aspects. The sooner we learn this concerning human sexual behavior, the sooner we shall reach a sound understanding of the realities of sex.

  Alfred Kinsey

  Sex, Reality, Two

  Sexual Behavior in the Human Male ch. 21 (1948)

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• I am a strong, black lesbian woman. Every single time I say it, I feel so much better.

  Brittney Griner

  Strong, Black, Feels

  "Owning The Middle". Interview with Kate Fagan, www.espn.com. May 29, 2013.

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• So I am deeply saddened and shocked over the current legislation that is now in place against the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community here in Russia. In my opinion, it is inhumane and it is isolating.

  Elton John

  Gay, Bisexual, Russia

  "VIDEO: Elton John Denounces Russia’s Anti-Gay Law at Moscow Concert" by Asawin Suebsaeng, www.motherjones.com. December 7, 2013.

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• I say that homosexuality is not just a form of sex, it's a form of love, and it deserves our respect for that reason.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Sex, Gay Pride, Reason

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• Should I talk about [having breast cancer]? Because how many things could I have? You know black, lesbian - I'm like, I can't be the poster child for everything. At least with the LGBT issues we get a parade and a float and it's a party.

  Wanda Sykes

  Children, Cancer, Party

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• I'm very gay, but I love women. I'm not attracted to men in any way. ... But yes I am gay, I'm so happy. I'm a gay, heterosexual male. ... I got major love for the gay and lesbian community, and I just want to push less separation.

  Lil B

  Gay, Men, Community

  "Lil B Says I'm Gay Lp Title Provoking Death Threats, Slurs" By Rob Markman, www.mtv.com. April 21, 2011.

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• I mean, really: He called me 33 percent lesbian, which was a gross underestimation of my lesbian-ness.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Mean, Gross, Percent

  "Reese Witherspoon Says Robert Pattinson Underestimated Her 'Lesbian-Ness'" by Kara Warner, www.mtv.com. June 6, 2011.

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• Homosexuality is regarded as shameful by barbarians and by those who live under despotic governments just as philosophy is regarded as shameful by them, because it is apparently not in the interest of such rulers to have great ideas engendered in their subjects, or powerful friendships or passionate love - all of which homosexuality is particularly apt to produce.

  Plato

  Powerful, Philosophy, Gay

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