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You know, the guys there were so beautiful - they've lost that wounded look that fags all had 10 years ago. ~ Allen Ginsberg
Lgbtq Activism quotes by Allen Ginsberg
If you can get with the freaks, then we want you here. ~ Sarah Liss
Lgbtq Activism quotes by Sarah Liss
The world was in terrible shape, and I'm glad we stood up and said what we believed; but a lot of the time we'd say these beautiful things about justice and fairness and equality, but we weren't so nice to each other. We'd be jealous and we'd gossip, and we'd be moody and difficult and rude and inconsiderate. Why do I say 'we'? I mean I would be all that
and if at the time I ever came near to knowing what I'd become, I'd dodge, I'd duck, I'd go on the offensive: the terrible Wall Street bankers. Lots of them were terrible
and so were lots of us. ~ Dorothy Day
Lgbtq Activism quotes by Dorothy Day
They built a city of their dreams, with a thriving gift economy and vibrant culture that encouraged all participants to let loose their wildest, most glorious freak. They weren't protesting; they were celebrating. ~ Jonathan Talat Phillips
Lgbtq Activism quotes by Jonathan Talat Phillips
If, having endured much, we have at last asserted out "right to know," and if by knowing, we have concluded that we are being asked to take senseless and frightening risks, then we should no longer accept the counsel of those who tell us that we must fill our world with poisonous chemicals; we should look about and see what other course is open to us. ~ Rachel Carson
Lgbtq Activism quotes by Rachel Carson
God remains silent so that men and women may speak, protest, and struggle. God remains silent so that people may really become people. When God is silent and men and women cry, God cries in solidarity with them but doesn't intervene. God waits for the shouts of protest. ~ Elsa Tamez
Lgbtq Activism quotes by Elsa Tamez
Queerness is not yet here. Queerness is an ideality. Put another way, we are not yet queer, but we can feel it as the warm illumination of a horizon imbued with potentiality. We have never been queer, yet queerness exists for us as an ideality that can be distilled from the past and used to imagine a future. The future is queerness's domain. (p. 1) ~ José Esteban Muñoz
Lgbtq Activism quotes by José Esteban Muñoz
I nod anyway because honestly, if I'm gonna die, I want to die having said yes to her as many times as I can. ~ Leah Johnson
Lgbtq Activism quotes by Leah Johnson
You speak of doing good to the world. Is the world such a small thing? And who are you, pray, to do good to the world? First realise God, see Him by means of spiritual discipline. If He imparts power you can do good to others; otherwise not. ~ Ramakrishna
Lgbtq Activism quotes by Ramakrishna
You may be told that the legal decisions lead the changes, that judges and lawmakers lead the culture in those theaters called courtrooms, but they only ratify change. They are almost never where change begins, only where it ends up, for most changes travel from the edges to the center. ~ Rebecca Solnit
Lgbtq Activism quotes by Rebecca Solnit
How many little kids were being orphaned or killed, right that minute, while I was sitting there watching TV? ~ Jason Schmidt
Lgbtq Activism quotes by Jason Schmidt
Are you?" I said. "Gay, I mean?"
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I hoped he wasn't offended by my asking, but after everything that had happened, I really wanted to know.
"No," he said. "I thought I was for about a w-w-week once. But now I know I'm not."
If there was ever an answer that sounded like the truth, that was it. ~ Brent Hartinger
Lgbtq Activism quotes by Brent Hartinger
I don't want to be me. I don't want to second-guess if my friends are going to be okay with me being me, and more importantly, I don't want to see what happens if they're not. ~ Adam Silvera
Lgbtq Activism quotes by Adam Silvera
Usually the way I think someone is radicalized is through a personal experience. The thing about environmental activism is that we are all having a personal experience with our environment, whether we open our eyes or not. ~ Peter Sarsgaard
Lgbtq Activism quotes by Peter Sarsgaard
The 'will to peace' is the best answer that we can imagine to the 'will to war', which unfortunately seems as strong in this century as it was in the middle of the last. ~ David Petersen
Lgbtq Activism quotes by David Petersen
ten reasons to love being queer

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the people within our community are so supportive and so caring and so loving, most of the time towards people they don't even know
and it is in moments like that when you realize that the queer community is more than a community
we are a family ~ Courtney Carola
Lgbtq Activism quotes by Courtney Carola
When the average American consumes 43 times as much as the average African, we've got to think that consumption is an issue. It's not just about population. ~ Jason W Clay
Lgbtq Activism quotes by Jason W Clay
We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles. ~ Jimmy Carter
Lgbtq Activism quotes by Jimmy Carter
Social activism has gone mainstream. A new generation of philanthropic leaders such as Bill and Melinda Gates, and Bono are providing inspiration, guidance, and billions of dollars through their global foundations. ~ Willow Bay
Lgbtq Activism quotes by Willow Bay
Trans activism in the US has most frequently been grassroots, centered on poverty and criminalization, and often oppositional to the exclusionary "mainstreaming" threads in gay and lesbian politics and feminist politics. ~ Dean Spade
Lgbtq Activism quotes by Dean Spade
It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
Lgbtq Activism quotes by Mahatma Gandhi
We've got to make change our national pastime and hold protests more regularly than weekend parties. ~ Rivera Sun
Lgbtq Activism quotes by Rivera Sun
I guess you hate the people most who make justifiable demands. Because they go to the heart of our psyche. We know they are right, and therefore, we have to destroy them if we can. I think a lot of people are really afraid of justifiable Indian claims to land and resources. They're most afraid of the fact that the claims are morally right, because when you are confronted with a moral imperative against an immoral imperative on your part, you've got to hate the people who assert that moral imperative...We hate them because their claims are totally justified--and we know it. ~ Mary Crow Dog
Lgbtq Activism quotes by Mary Crow Dog
The thing is we never needed anyone's consent to get married. What is happening is that the established powers are starting realize how much of jack asses they have looked like for not acknowledging our marriages and our human rights and we are starting to receive the rights we were always entitled too. Therefore, no one is "giving" or "allowing" us anything. We are simply and powerfully starting to reclaim what has always been ours. The moralistic patriarchy has made this a long and bloody battle, but the concept has always been simple and I am glad it is finally sinking in. We are here, we have always been here, we are not going anywhere, and trying to suppress us under false puritanical mores is not smart and will not make us go away. It's not just about the LGBTQ communities but all suppressed minorities. If you listen closely you can here the subtle but real shifting of the winds to a more enlightened and egalitarian society. It won't happen without work, and it won't happen without intelligence. Never stop learning, never stop growing, never be ashamed because you are different, and never stop knowing that there is power in community. ~ Kent Marrero
Lgbtq Activism quotes by Kent Marrero
And whenever I look over at him and he meets my eyes, I try to say, See? It could be like this. It could be like this every day.

But then I see his own words pushed back to me, high and tight in his thoughts: It could. But I'd lose everything I know and everyone I have. ~ Christina Lauren
Lgbtq Activism quotes by Christina Lauren
Don't start me talking
I could talk all night
My mind goes sleepwalking
While I'm putting the world to right. ~ Elvis Costello
Lgbtq Activism quotes by Elvis Costello
The core of human rights work is naming and shaming those who commit abuses, and pressuring governments to put the screws to abusing states. As a result, human rights conventions are unique among international law instruments in depending for their enforcement mostly on the activism of a global civil society movement. ~ Michael Ignatieff
Lgbtq Activism quotes by Michael Ignatieff
Arise,awake,stop not until your goal is achieved. ~ Swami Vivekananda
Lgbtq Activism quotes by Swami Vivekananda
We wish we could offer you a creation myth, an exact reason why you are the way you are, why when you read this sentence, you will know it's about you. ~ David Levithan
Lgbtq Activism quotes by David Levithan
The best way I can describe [being transgender] for myself [...] is a constant feeling of homesickness. An unwavering ache in the pit of my stomach that only goes away when I can be seen and affirmed in the gender I've always felt myself to be. And unlike homesickness with location, which eventually diminishes as you get used to the new home, this homesickness only grows with time and separation. ~ Sarah McBride
Lgbtq Activism quotes by Sarah McBride
The Earth was singing her revolution. She was calling her brave men and women to her defense. ~ Rivera Sun
Lgbtq Activism quotes by Rivera Sun
All that is needed is to listen. The love song of the world enters our souls through the language of life. Our touchstone of strength forms the shape of our beloveds. Courage surges into our limbs. We rise. One foot steps in the direction of change. This is the Love that thrusts the world through eternity and carries us forward into the infinity of tomorrow. It sings overhead, scouring the barriers of reality, looking for an opening. ~ Rivera Sun
Lgbtq Activism quotes by Rivera Sun
They should love you, just as you are. Parents should love their kids, right?"
"You'd think so. ~ N.R. Walker
Lgbtq Activism quotes by N.R. Walker
Desperately hoping other gays know how gay you are without you saying anything is gay culture. ~ R. Cooper
Lgbtq Activism quotes by R. Cooper
There is a pervasive form of contemporary violence to which the idealist most easily succumbs: activism and overwork. The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of its innate violence. To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to violence. The frenzy of our activism neutralizes our work for peace. It destroys our own inner capacity for peace. It destroys the fruitfulness of our own work, because it kills the root of inner wisdom which makes work fruitful. ~ Thomas Merton
Lgbtq Activism quotes by Thomas Merton
What is music in America? It's this stand-in for political action in a lot of senses. We have no democracy and we have no art culture, and we've long considered politics nebbish-y and hopelessly unsexy. So a lot of what would be considered political activism is channeled into cultural work. ~ Ian Svenonius
Lgbtq Activism quotes by Ian Svenonius
Embracing government activism, he asserted that the public benefit fully justified the government "in making expenditures in the direction that no private enterprise could afford to go. ~ Charles W. Calhoun
Lgbtq Activism quotes by Charles W. Calhoun
From the comfort of our own homes its hard to understand the complexities of something like poverty and homelessness. ~ Terence Lester
Lgbtq Activism quotes by Terence Lester
But if you dig deep enough, I believe you will discover a God that is bigger than your box. ~ Amber Cantorna
Lgbtq Activism quotes by Amber Cantorna
Me? I had no dreams. No longings. Dreams only set you up for disappointment. Plus, you had to have a life to have dreams of a better life. ~ Julie Anne Peters
Lgbtq Activism quotes by Julie Anne Peters
Art and activism seem to go together naturally, the idea being that if you're an entertainer, you can have a voice, and if you have a voice, you can make a difference. But if I were not an actress, I would still try to extend myself beyond my little micro-universe of my job, family and personal joy. ~ Salma Hayek
Lgbtq Activism quotes by Salma Hayek
I hate dogma in any form. I hated it in the Catholic Church and Girl Scout troops of the 1950s, and I hate in in gay activism and established feminism today. ~ Camille Paglia
Lgbtq Activism quotes by Camille Paglia
Often people who already had an interest in human rights work. What I did notice with all of them, even the people who professed to be interested in human rights, was that activism was somewhat a concept in their mind - a symbolic flag on the quad or something to show how many people were starving in the world. But once they saw their efforts connected to a person, I did see a change. ~ Adam Braver
Lgbtq Activism quotes by Adam Braver
The slaughter of dolphins and other marine mammals is no more horrible than captive dolphins performing tricks because it's not just dolphins were talking about, it's also people. Especially children [...] The effect is devastatingly the same because millions of people every year who watch and cheer this spectacle of dominance are in some way also cheering every other form of environmental ravishment. If dolphin is a reference point in our relationship with nature, then when we teach people that it's okay to abuse dolphins, we're teaching them that it's also okay to abuse the rest of nature. ~ Richard O'Barry
Lgbtq Activism quotes by Richard O'Barry
What lies ahead seems unlikely; when it becomes the past, it seems inevitable. ~ Rebecca Solnit
Lgbtq Activism quotes by Rebecca Solnit
We felt as though we had a responsibility to do something about it. So, we did. ~ Xiuhtezcatl Martinez
Lgbtq Activism quotes by Xiuhtezcatl Martinez
For once, I'd love if someone reacted unpredictably to death. Chant or somersault or fucking yodel to show me you have a mind of your own. ~ Halo Scot
Lgbtq Activism quotes by Halo Scot
Sooner or later you end up making deals with women. It's an injustice, really. ~ Patricia Nell Warren
Lgbtq Activism quotes by Patricia Nell Warren
From this perspective, we were all divine Shakespeares, creating and playing the roles of muscled heroes and conniving villains, pious saints and debauched sinners, corrupt CEOs and disinterested temp workers. ~ Jonathan Talat Phillips
Lgbtq Activism quotes by Jonathan Talat Phillips
When you hear of Gay Pride, remember, it was not born out of a need to celebrate being gay.
It evolved out of our need as human beings to break free of oppression and to exist without being criminalized, pathologized or persecuted.
Depending on a number of factors, particularly religion, freeing ourselves from gay shame and coming to self-love and acceptance, can not only be an agonising journey, it can take years.
Tragically some don't make it.
Instead of wondering why there isn't a straight pride be grateful you have never needed one.
Celebrate with us. ~ Anthony Venn-Brown
Lgbtq Activism quotes by Anthony Venn-Brown
I don't think I chose to be gay, if that's what you mean. In fact, I didn't choose a lot of things. Like being the son of the president. Or coming to Inverness. Or even being in the closet, really. All in all, I'd say I have about as much free will as an espresso maker. ~ Tim Floreen
Lgbtq Activism quotes by Tim Floreen
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