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Lgbtiq Rights Activist Inspirational Quotes (533)

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It is not a woman’s duty to disclose that she’s trans to every person she meets. This is not safe for a myriad of reasons. We must shift the burden of coming out from trans women, and accusing them of hiding or lying, and focus on why it is unsafe for women to be trans.
Janet Mock
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One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
Rita Mae Brown
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It is by losing himself in the objective, in inquiry, creation, and craft, that a man becomes something.
Paul Goodman
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It isn't the sign of a good sport to go out among other people when one has a cold: it is the sign of a selfish and ill-advised person.
Mary Elizabeth Clark
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The Last Of England works with image and sound, a language which is nearer to poetry than prose. It tells its story quite happily in silent images, in contrast to a word-bound cinema.
Derek Jarman
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Gays are beginning to realize what blacks learned long ago: Unless you are out here fighting for yourself then nobody else will help you. I think the gay community has a moral obligation to continue the fight.
Bayard Rustin
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English is weak in describing emotional states or intensities of interpersonal relationships.
Rita Mae Brown
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Bigotrys birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for the persecution and oppression of other human beings.
Bayard Rustin
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Self-pity is the simplest luxury.
Rita Mae Brown
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Sometimes we do that to ourselves -- we pit our desires against one another. We insist unnecessarily on seeing one aspect of our personality as being at odds with the rest of ourselves.
Julia Serano
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To begin is no more agony than opening your hand.
June Jordan
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We are born as who we are, the gender thing is something that is imposed on you.
Laverne Cox
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You can love more than one person at a time, and I don't give a damn what the self-help books say.
Rita Mae Brown
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Making my work more visual is something I am increasingly excited about. I am hopeful that it will broaden access to some of the ideas being engaged in activist and scholarly communities of which I am part.
Dean Spade
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The lurking tragedy: The chances are that an accident will some day happen to you at a friend's dinner table ... As long as water and coffee and jelly exist, a certain percentage of each will necessarily be overturned upon a like number of snowy white tablecloths. Usually the tragedy is really no one's fault.
Mary Elizabeth Clark
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The majority of new infections in America are among young gay and bisexual men of color, and the full resources that could be brought to bear simply are not.
Cleve Jones
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I don't have any hobbies! I don't golf, I can't imagine what I would do if I retired other than get fat.
Cleve Jones
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AIDS was allowed to happen. It is a plague that need not have happened. It is a plague that could have been contained from the very beginning.
Larry Kramer
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Both morally and practically, segregation is to me a basic injustice. Since I believe it to be so, I must attempt to remove it. There are three ways in which one can deal with an injustice. (a) One can accept it without protest. (b) On can seek to avoid it. (c) One can resist the injustice non-violently. To accept it is to perpetuate it.
Bayard Rustin
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I'm quite good, though I say it myself, at making strangers feel at ease.
Alan Cumming
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With Urban Secrets, I just really liked the idea of wandering around chatting to people.
Alan Cumming
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My parents were exclude from rights as farm workers, though that has to change.
Julia Serano
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I always say to people, If you share my dream, why don't we walk together? And that's my only organizing tool.
Harry Hay
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many lesbians were so far in the closet they were in danger of being mistaken for garment bags.
Rita Mae Brown
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