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Lgbtiq Rights Activist Inspirational Quotes (533)

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About all you can do in life is be who you are.
Rita Mae Brown
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Looking back at his career, Mr. Rustin, a Quaker, once wrote: ‘The principal factors which influenced my life are 1) nonviolent tactics 2) constitutional means 3) democratic procedures 4) respect for human personality 5) a belief that all people are one.’
Bayard Rustin
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I am the history of the rejection of who I am
June Jordan
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I like the tragedies way more than the comedies because they're so universal.
Alan Cumming
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I think that a big part of the energy that was going into fighting AIDS was reduced when we saw that more of the new infections were among our black and brown young people. That's a sad truth to have to claim, but I believe it's true.
Cleve Jones
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I think you can judge the level of success for any group of people by the reaction against it.
Rita Mae Brown
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To have meaningful work is a tremendous happiness.
Rita Mae Brown
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I knew that I was gay in every bone of my body. So I did the only thing I could do. I started the movement.
Harry Hay
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Suppose you had the revolution you are talking and dreaming about. Suppose your side had won, and you had the kind of society you wanted. How would you live, you personally, in that society? Start living that way now!
Paul Goodman
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I was assigned boy at birth but I have always known I was a girl.
Geena Rocero
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Never underestimate the power of self-absorption, including your parents' self-absorption.
Rita Mae Brown
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What the devil to do with the sentence Who the devil does he think he's fooling? You can't write Whom the devil- .
Paul Goodman
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The reality is that the gayborhoods are going away. It's because of many factors, including the internet and increased acceptance, but mostly it's the cost of housing.
Cleve Jones
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It then becomes necessary to stop short and make a choice: Either/Or. Either one drifts with their absurd system of ideas, believing that this is the human community. Or one dissents totally from their system of ideas and stands as a lonely human being. (But luckily one notices that the others are in the same crisis and making the same choices.)
Paul Goodman
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I thought, transgender people are much worse off than I am. That's why they're willing to risk everything to be who they are. But the older I got, the harder it got to stay in my body.
Chaz Bono
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My work is heavily influenced by critiques that many critical intellectual traditions, especially Critical Race Theory, have made of reform projects focused on legal equality.
Dean Spade
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Any social movement that seeks to benefit only its own members I think is a shallow movement and probably doomed to failure.
Cleve Jones
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As a child I was taught that to tell the truth was often painful. As an adult I have learned that not to tell the truth is more painful, and that the fear of telling the truth - whatever the truth may be - that fear is the most painful sensation of a moral life.
June Jordan
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I strive to find materials that will engage students, expand their capacities as critical readers and thinkers, and feel immediately relevant to their daily lives and future work in court and social service systems.
Dean Spade
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Humor comes from self-confidence.
Rita Mae Brown
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Life is unjust, people can be cruel, and yet if you harden your heart, you will lose what little love there is in this world.
Rita Mae Brown
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When people have points of reference that are humanizing, that demystifies difference.
Laverne Cox
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I've always felt I carried a golden secret, a wonderful secret. Every time I thought about it, it made me feel warm inside and good.
Harry Hay
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If you're gonna build units for the rich, you're gonna build units for the poor.
Cleve Jones
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