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Lgbtiq Rights Activist Inspirational Quotes (533)

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Obviously the transgender movement has not progressed in the way that the gay and lesbian movement has. But Im an activist - thats just the kind of person I am.
Chaz Bono
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Women and gay people are the litmus test of whether a society is democratic and respecting human rights. We are the canaries in the mine.
Peter Tatchell
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We, hijras, are not hypocrites. We live our sexuality openly, being truthful to our souls and our bodies. Science and doctors assigned something else to us when we were born - which they didn't have the authority to - but we choose what we are and we are very truthful about it.
Laxmi Narayan Tripathi
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The preoccupation with transition and with surgery objectifies trans people, and we don't get to really deal with the real lived experiences.
Laverne Cox
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It's interesting, for me sappy means sentimental and something that gets you in your heart, gets you emotional. That's what I mean. Also, of course, it means that I'm slightly setting up the audience that there's a bit of fun involved, as well.
Alan Cumming
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The human animal dances wildest on the edge of the grave.
Rita Mae Brown
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I'm always skeptical about representations of trans people, especially when trans people are not making the work.
Laverne Cox
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Morals are private. Decency is public.
Rita Mae Brown
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We are the ones we've been waiting for.
June Jordan
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If you are a cabaret artist and you are mostly singing other people's songs, you're asking them to rethink a song, listen to it in a different way. The most impact you can have while asking them to re-listen to a song is if it's a song they know very well.
Alan Cumming
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Romeo is the most misunderstood character in literature, I think. He's hardcore to play because he's displaying the characteristics of Hamlet at the beginning, and, well, then everything else happens.
Alan Cumming
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I believe if we have something that we love to do, that can save our lives. That can get us through.
Laverne Cox
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Any woman whose I.Q. hovers above her body temperature must be a feminist.
Rita Mae Brown
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To believe is to become what you believe.
June Jordan
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Burst down those closet doors once and for all, and stand up and start to fight.
Harvey Milk
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A successful revolution establishes a new community. A missed revolution makes irrelevant the community that persists. And a compromised revolution tends to shatter the community that was, without an adequate substitute.
Paul Goodman
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But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966.
June Jordan
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Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law. Understand that we are you. Understand that if we decide to have sex whether safe, safer, or unsafe, it is our decision and you have no rights in our lovemaking.
Derek Jarman
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Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.
Rita Mae Brown
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In sports, as in love, one can never pretend.
Rita Mae Brown
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In a milieu of resignation, where the young men think of society as a closed room in which there are no values but the rejected rat race, ... it is extremely hard to aim at objective truth or world culture. One's own products are likely to be personal or parochial.
Paul Goodman
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In some states, a very small number of states, it is illegal to discriminate against someone on the basis of their gender identity, transgender identification. In the vast majority, it is perfectly legal.
Allyson Robinson
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The only merciful thing about drug abuse is the speed with which it devastates you. Alcoholics can take decades to destroy themselves and everyone they touch. The drug addict can accomplish this in a year or two. Of course, suicide is even more efficient.
Rita Mae Brown
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I believe all literature started as gossip.
Rita Mae Brown
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