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Lgbtiq Rights Activist Inspirational Quotes (535)

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This is always history's greatest failure, its inability to believe what it sees, what, almost always, someone sees.
Larry Kramer
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The police had a practice of entrapping people. This was done all over the country, but we had a particularly vicious group here in Southern California because of the Hollywood situation. They knew they could get a lot of them. They were shaking down people for thousands in blackmail.
Harry Hay
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Even today every year we lose an awful lot of young people, teenagers, who take their own lives because they're - they are gay or transgender.
Cleve Jones
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The only weapon we have is our bodies, and we need to tuck them in places so wheels don't turn
Bayard Rustin
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To want a job that exercises a man's capacities in an enterprise useful to society, is utopian anarcho-syndicalism it is labor invading the domain of management. No labor leader has entertained such a thought in our generation. Management has the sole prerogative to determine the products.
Paul Goodman
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The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet
June Jordan
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I love being gay. I love gay people. I think we're better than other people. I really do. I think we're smarter and more talented and more aware. I do, I totally do. I really do think all of these things. And I try very hard to remember all this.
Larry Kramer
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I'm Scottish first, and it's odd to hear that I'm a Scottish-American.
Alan Cumming
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Believing that you are unworthy of love and belonging or that who you are authentically is a sin or is wrong, is deadly.
Laverne Cox
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They wanted to force me to be someone that I wasn't. They wanted me to delegitimize myself as a trans woman and I was not taking that. As a proud black trans woman, I was not going to allow the system to delegitimize, hyper-sexualize and take my identity away from me.
CeCe McDonald
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The penalties for homosexual conduct were - would vary from state to state, but they were - it was a felony in most states punishable with prison terms of varying lengths.
Cleve Jones
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We spend countless hours talking about people's feelings and issues that aren't going to change anything.
Cleve Jones
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Assimilation is the way you excuse yourself. It absolutely never worked at all. You may not think you are noticeable. But they know who you are. They know you're a degenerate, and they've never forgotten that.
Harry Hay
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Politics is theater. It doesn't matter if you win. You make a statement. You say, I'm here, pay attention to me
Harvey Milk
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If any of us hopes to survive, she must meet the extremity of the American female condition with immediate and political response. The thoroughly destructive and indefensible subjugation of the majority of Americans cannot continue except at the peril of the entire body politic.
June Jordan
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Love is when you fry the other person's bacon even if you're a vegetarian.
Patricia Nell Warren
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Naming can limit as well as empower.
Loraine Hutchins
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If we even tolerate any oppression of gay and lesbian Americans, if we join those who would intrude upon the choices of our hearts, then who among us shall be free?
June Jordan
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We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived.
June Jordan
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People will never fight for your freedom if you have not given evidence that you are prepared to fight for it yourself.
Bayard Rustin
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Cats and dogs believe politicians are like cemetery caregivers they are on top of everyone, but nobody listens.
Rita Mae Brown
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I argue that legal equality has failed resistance movements aimed at transforming material conditions of violence, and that trans activists should take a decidedly different approach.
Dean Spade
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If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.
Bayard Rustin
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I am rather disturbed by the fact that so many people—who are neither medical professionals nor trans themselves—would want to hear all of the gory details regarding transsexual physical transformations, or would feel that they have any right to ask us about the state of our genitals.
Julia Serano
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