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Lgbtiq Rights Activist Inspirational Quotes (534)

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We need, in every community, a group of angelic troublemakers.
Bayard Rustin
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Oppression works in such a way that it holds every person responsible for the acts of any wrongdoer of the oppressed group.
Rita Mae Brown
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I'm sorry that our country and the people do not consider the arts as vital to our well-being as, say, medicine. Suffering is unnecessary. It doesn't make you a better artist it only makes you a hungry one. However, to me the acquisition of the craft of writing was worth any amount of suffering.
Rita Mae Brown
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What tyranny could exceed a tyranny that dictates to the human heart?
June Jordan
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You'll see Dame Judi Dench in a Bond film, in Shakespeare and then starring in her own sitcom. You never see that here with Meryl Streep.
Alan Cumming
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The process of writing, any form of creativity, is a power intensifying life.
Rita Mae Brown
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I am a comic writer, which means I get to slay the dragons, and shoot the bull.
Rita Mae Brown
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Pornography exists for the lonesome, the ugly, the fearful - it's made for the losers.
Rita Mae Brown
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The United States Supreme Court, once a reliable if ultimate recourse for progressive and even revolutionary grievances, has become a retrograde wellspring for enormous economic and social distress.
June Jordan
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Self-definition and self-determination is about the many varied decisions that we make to compose and journey toward ourselves, about the audacity and strength to proclaim, create, and evolve into who we know ourselves to be. It’s okay if your personal definition is in a constant state of flux as you navigate the world.
Janet Mock
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If someone as deluded as I was can be brought out of homosexuality then surely anyone can.
Joe Dallas
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I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.
Rita Mae Brown
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To sit on the front steps — whether it's a veranda in a small town or a concrete stoop in a big city — and to talk to our neighborhoods is infinitely more important than to huddle on the living-room lounger and watch a make-believe world in not-quite living color.
Harvey Milk
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The family is the American fascism.
Paul Goodman
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If I do a good job, people won't care if I am green or have three heads.
Harvey Milk
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Political elections are not life and death.
Rita Mae Brown
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If you have a problem with people living their lives and being authentically who they are, you really should go and do some soul-searching.
Laverne Cox
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The Eighth Amendment to the Constitution protects citizens against cruel and unusual punishment. And there is a growing body of legal precedent that shows that transgender people who are incarcerated should be provided with these medically necessary procedures. In cases where they're not, it is considered a violation of those rights.
Allyson Robinson
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My feeling about work is it's much more about the experience of doing it than the end product. Sometimes things that are really great and make lots of money are miserable to make, and vice versa.
Alan Cumming
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I honestly just want to make myself happy most, and if other people like it, then that's great. If they don't, then I'm still happy.
Laverne Cox
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Odd thing about death ... it reaffirms life.
Rita Mae Brown
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I've got splinters in my nose from the best publishing doors in town.
Rita Mae Brown
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Don't hope more than you're willing to work.
Rita Mae Brown
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I think transwomen, and transpeople in general, show everyone that you can define what it means to be a man or woman on your own terms. A lot of what feminism is about is moving outside of roles and moving outside of expectations of who and what you're supposed to be to live a more authentic life.
Laverne Cox
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