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Lgbtiq Rights Activist Inspirational Quotes (533)

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The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think
June Jordan
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Seeing a black transgender woman embracing and loving everything about herself might be inspiring to some other folks.
Laverne Cox
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Because our society is so polarized between homosexuals and heterosexuals, the bisexual closet has two doors.
Loraine Hutchins
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Armies are dependent on youthful male ignorance.
Rita Mae Brown
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I wanted to show America a different kind of man. If there was someone like me when I was growing up, my whole life would have been different.
Chaz Bono
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I have always been aware that I can never represent all trans people. No one or two or three trans people can. This is why we need diverse media representations of trans folks to multiply trans narratives in the media and depict our beautiful diversities.
Laverne Cox
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I was at Yale from 1953 to 1957, and I tried to commit suicide in my freshman year because I was gay, and I thought I was the only person in the school who was. I was just totally and utterly miserable.
Larry Kramer
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At the rate science proceeds, rockets and missiles will one day seem like buffalo - slow, endangered grazers in the black pasture of outer space.
Bernard Cooper
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Since Israel is a democratic state surrounded by essentially undemocratic states which have sworn her destruction, those interested in democracy everywhere must support Israel's existence.
Bayard Rustin
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Macbeth was the first play I ever read.
Alan Cumming
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The organization of American society is an interlocking system of semi-monopolies notoriously venal, an electorate notoriously unenlightened, misled by mass media notoriously phony.
Paul Goodman
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It is revolutionary for any trans person to choose to be seen and visible in a world that tells us we should not exist.
Laverne Cox
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Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
Rita Mae Brown
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The real radical is that person who has a vision of equality and is willing to do those things that will bring reality closer to that vision. . .
Bayard Rustin
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Sometimes people do you a favour when they drop out of your life.
Alan Cumming
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compromise is the work of mature people.
Rita Mae Brown
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We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the Athenians wrote poetry. The Spartans did not.
Rita Mae Brown
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Book tours are like boot camp but with little sleep and less food.
Rita Mae Brown
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There are some days when you don't feel like being Alan Cumming.
Alan Cumming
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We shouldn't demonize the woman who wears high heels and we shouldn't demonize the woman who doesn't wear high heels. We should accept all forms of comportment.
Laverne Cox
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Trans women are getting killed EVERYDAY & you think the struggle is over because you can put a ring on a finger?!
CeCe McDonald
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Nothing could be more stupid than for the communications commission to give to people who handle the means of broadcasting the inventing of what to broadcast, and then, disturbed at the poor quality, to worry about censorship.
Paul Goodman
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The American Dream starts with the neighborhoods.
Harvey Milk
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Bestiality is not my thing But it seems to be a harmless foible or idiosyncrasy of some people. So, as long as the animal doesn't mind (and the animal rarely does), I don't mind, and I don't see why anyone else should.
Frank Kameny
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