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Lgbtiq Rights Activist Inspirational Quotes (533)

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A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn't interest me.
Alan Cumming
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In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see, each of us has to get in touch with himself or herself in a really deep, serious way.
June Jordan
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... if your heart and your honest body can be controlled by the state, or controlled by community taboo, are you not then, and in that case, no more than a slave ruled by outside force? What tyranny could exceed a tyranny that dictates to the human heart, and that attempts to dictate the public career of an honest human body?
June Jordan
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We do not behave as if we believed that the affairs of our world were significant enough for the intervention of great men.
Paul Goodman
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We have to think bigger as writers. We have to try and change the world.
Larry Kramer
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Whenever there is polarization, there is an unhappy tendency to think the truth lies somewhere in between.
Gayle Rubin
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When there's an adult person who's scaring you, you grow up pretty quickly.
Alan Cumming
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It is hard to grow up in a society in which one's important problems are treated as nonexistent. It is impossible to belong to it, it is hard to fight to change it.
Paul Goodman
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I love a film where I get squished by two dumpsters or I fly through the air.
Alan Cumming
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Law reforms in the US, ostensibly enacted to prohibit racism, have proven ineffective because they focus on bad intentions of individuals and fail to comprehend population-level conditions.
Dean Spade
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An awkward consequence of heightening experience when one is inexperienced, of self-transcendence when one has not much world to lose, is that afterward one cannot be sure that one was somewhere or had newly experienced anything. If you aren't much in the world, how do you know you are out of this world?
Paul Goodman
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Humankind is innocent, loving, and creative, you dig? It's the bureaucracies that create the evil, that make Honor and Community impossible, and it's the kids who really take it in the groin.
Paul Goodman
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People are like tea bags you never know how strong they'll be until they're in hot water. In times of trouble, you not only discover what you truly believe but whether or not you can act on your beliefs.
Rita Mae Brown
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Let us be enraged about injustice, but let us not be destroyed by it.
Bayard Rustin
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I no longer idolize reason. I have come to accept that ninety percent of what we do is irrational and that we spend what little rational thought we have in justifying our irrationality.
Rita Mae Brown
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People say to me, You make fantastic films and I say, No, I make documentaries.
Derek Jarman
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By doing the work to love ourselves more, I believe we will love each other better.
Laverne Cox
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Gender segregated shelters are inaccessible to many trans people, and trans women in particular are often forced to choose between going into a men's shelter where they face enormous danger, or remaining street homeless and facing the violence, harassment, arrest, and exposure risks of that.
Dean Spade
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...funny how people want a return to the good ole days. Of coarse the good ole days of being a rich white plantation owner. Everyone seems to forget the poor white farmer.
Rita Mae Brown
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Computer dating? It's terrific if you're a computer!
Rita Mae Brown
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A democratic state is not proven by the welfare of the strong but by the welfare of the weak.
June Jordan
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Being called gay is worse than transgender. I remember when I started fighting way back in 1999 for hijas' rights, and I said the state doesn't have the right to use my gender to club me into gay. If I say I am not a man then who are you to question it? Being called gay or a man really upsets me.
Laxmi Narayan Tripathi
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Legal reform has significant dangers: changing only the window-dressing of harmful systems but leaving the violence of the systems in tact, failing to provide actual relief for those facing the worst conditions, and legitimizing or expanding systems of harm.
Dean Spade
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Would it upset men if they found out we weren't different? Are we? Aren't we? Damned if I know.
Rita Mae Brown
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