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Lgbtiq Rights Activist Inspirational Quotes (534)

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whoever said progress was a positive thing has never been to Florida or California.
Rita Mae Brown
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We all want to leave our children the Garden of Eden and we wind up giving them hardscrabble.
Rita Mae Brown
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I have deliberated carefully about which of the terms that are unfamiliar to many of my readers I wanted to take time to introduce and explain, and which terms I would not introduce, despite the fact that I find them useful in my other work, in teaching, or in other activist contexts.
Dean Spade
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I don't believe in straight or gay. I really don't. I think we're all degrees of bisexual.
Rita Mae Brown
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A woman who doesn't care what men think of her - ah, this is dangerous. This is the worst conceivable insult to the male ego.
Martha Shelley
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There's not just one trans story. There's not just one trans experience.
Laverne Cox
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A movement that seeks to advance only its own members is going to accomplish little
Cleve Jones
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Reproductive choice is not some trendy item to toss or keep around the house. If you cannot get an education or a job, if you cannot choose what will or will not happen with your own body, then what freedom do you have?
June Jordan
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We have seen the most well-funded gay and lesbian rights organizations valorize the US military in their work seeking inclusion in military service.
Dean Spade
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Actors aren't stupid, mostly, and if there's a sensibility and an aesthetic that a director's going for, if you're aware of that too, you can do things to help that.
Alan Cumming
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I wouldn't wish the eighties on anyone, it was the time when all that was rotten bubbled to the surface. If you were not at the receiving end of this mayhem you could be unaware of it.
Derek Jarman
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Rights are won only by those who make their voices heard.
Harvey Milk
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He tried to drown his troubles but they knew how to swim.
Rita Mae Brown
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Whether you're transgender or not, most of us get to a point in our lives where we can no longer lie to ourselves.
Laverne Cox
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Never measure literature by accounting statistics. A quarter of working authors earn less than $1,000.
Rita Mae Brown
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I believe that we often disguise pain through ritual and it may be the only solace we have.
Rita Mae Brown
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It is by losing ourselves in inquiry, creation & craft that we become something. Civilization is a continual gift of spirit: inventions, discoveries, insight, art. We are citizens, as Socrates would have said, & we have it available as our own.
Paul Goodman
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When God made man she was practicing.
Rita Mae Brown
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In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.
June Jordan
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I like to sit in the window and watch the cute boys walk by.
Harvey Milk
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If you like my novels, I commend your good taste.
Rita Mae Brown
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Life is like a roller coaster- it has its ups and downs but in the end you have smiles and giggles because you know...you did it.
Julia Serano
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If Bradley Manning was the person who copied the secret US diplomatic cables to WikilLeaks, he is a hero for exposing human rights abuses.
Peter Tatchell
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A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
Rita Mae Brown
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