Orientation Quotes

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  What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.

  Tennessee Williams

  Heart, Gay, Lgbt Community

  Tennessee Williams (1975). “Memoirs”, p.54, New Directions Publishing

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• There's this illusion that homosexuals have sex and heterosexuals fall in love. That's completely untrue. Everybody wants to be loved.

  Boy George

  Falling In Love, Sex, Gay

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• Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

  James A. Baldwin

  Falling In Love, Gay, Boys

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• It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It's like disapproving of rain.

  Francis Maude

  Rain, Gay, Lgbt Pride

  "UK Politics 'Your Family Matters Most'". The Sunday Times Interview, news.bbc.co.uk. November 15, 1998.

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• Homosexuality is God's way of insuring that the truly gifted aren't burdened with children.

  Samuel Austin Allibone

  Children, Gay, Lgbt Pride

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• The time has come to make the protection of children - all our children - a common cause that can unite us across the boundaries of our political orientation, religious affiliation and cultural traditions. We must reclaim our lost taboos, and make the abuse and brutalization of children simply unaccepetable.

  Olara Otunnu

  Religious, Children, Political

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• Every orientation presupposes a disorientation.

  Hans Magnus Enzensberger

  Style, Disorientation

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• We have an orientation that tends to make us think that everything is our responsibility and that we should be doing this. It is the Iraqis' country, 28 million of them. They are perfectly capable of running that country.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Running, Country, Responsibility

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• The only people are those who don't love anybody.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Gay, Lgbt Pride, People

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• When we're in a human body, we don't care about universal collapse - instead, we care only about a meeting of the eyes, a glimpse of bare flesh, the caressing tones of a loved voice, joy, love, light, the orientation of a house plant, the shade of a paint stroke, the arrangement of hair.

  David Eagleman

  Eye, Light, Hair

  FaceBook post by David Eagleman from May 31, 2016

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• It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman.

  Camille Paglia

  Independent, America, Politics

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.84, Vintage

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• It got so ridiculous that I was like, there's no way this is going to last.

  Philip J. Kaplan

  Way, Lasts, Ridiculous

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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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• Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Hilarious, Sexy

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 1 Dec. 1975

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• Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation.

  Reverend Malcolm Boyd

  Jesus, Role Models, Example

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• I am a victim-oriented person. I like to see that the victims know that they have a voice.

  Fatou Bensouda

  Voice, Freedom Of Speech, Victim

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• It is not reason that gives us our moral orientation, it is sensitivity.

  Maurice Barres

  Art, Philosophy, History

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• We hope we are moving toward a world where sexual orientation is not an issue, because we hate the idea of a gay ghetto. I think that it's a real shame that people become restricted by their sexuality or define their whole lives by their sexuality.

  Neil Tennant

  Hate, Real, Moving

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

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• Outside of America, there are many people, myself included, who champion values that, in some senses, could be thought of as traditionally American - the idea that everybody's equal, that the rights of women and men should be the same, that there should be no discrimination on religious or sexual orientation, that democracy and rule of law and due process are the ways in which society should govern themselves and minorities should be cared for.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Religious, Men, Rights

  "From Refugees To Politics, Mohsin Hamid Writes The Change He Wants To See". "Fresh Air" with David Bianculli, www.npr.org. March 9, 2018.

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• People took some part of us and used it to discriminate against us. In our case, it was our ethnicity; it's precisely the same thing for sexual orientation.

  Desmond Tutu

  Ethnicity, People, Used

  Source: sojo.net

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• We humans are wired for empathy by evolution, but when children grow up in dominator families they internalize this male over female template for relations early on. They then automatically apply it to other differences, whether based on race, religion, sexual orientation, and so forth.

  Riane Eisler

  Children, Growing Up, Race

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• You shouldn't face discrimination because of your sexual orientation. That should be illegal.

  Tom Gjelten

  Faces, Discrimination, Should

  "In Religious Freedom Debate, 2 American Values Clash". www.wbgo.org. February 28, 2017.

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• We don't make determinations about who we love. And that's why I think that discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is wrong.

  Barack Obama

  Determination, Thinking, Discrimination

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• We have a lot more work to do in our common struggle against bigotry and discrimination. I say "common struggle" because I believe very strongly that all forms of bigotry and discrimination are equally wrong and should be opposed by right-thinking Americans everywhere. Freedom from discrimination based on sexual orientation is surely a fundamental human right in any great democracy, as much as freedom from racial, religious, gender, or ethnic discrimination.

  Coretta Scott King

  Religious, Believe, Struggle

  Coretta Scott King's remarks at Opening Plenary Session of the 13th annual "Creating Change" conference of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force in Atlanta, Georgia, November 9, 2000.

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• I think there is nothing wrong with instituting policies that say that harassment of any form, whether it comes through the Internet or whether it happens to you face to face, is unacceptable; that we've got zero tolerance when it comes to sexual harassment, we have zero tolerance when it comes to harassing people because of their sexual orientation, because of their race, because of their ethnicity.

  Barack Obama

  Zero, Thinking, Race

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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