Gay Rights Quotes

• I've just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same-sex couples should be able to get married.

  Barack Obama

  Sex, Couple, Gay

  Interview with Robin Roberts, abcnews.go.com. May 9, 2012.

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• The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Life, Bullying, Being Yourself

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• I'm a supporter of gay rights. And not a closet supporter either. From the time I was a kid, I have never been able to understand attacks upon the gay community. There are so many qualities that make up a human being... by the time I get through with all the things that I really admire about people, what they do with their private parts is probably so low on the list that it is irrelevant.

  Paul Newman

  Inspiring, Kids, Gay

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them.

  Barry Goldwater

  Christian, Religious, Party

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• Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.

  Shakti Gawain

  Inspirational, Motivational, Spiritual

  Shakti Gawain (2011). “Living in the Light, 25th Anniversary Edition: Follow Your Inner Guidance to Create a New Life and a New World”, p.59, New World Library

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• Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

  James A. Baldwin

  Falling In Love, Gay, Boys

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• Gay rights are human rights.

  Hillary Clinton

  Gay, Rights, Humans

  International Human Rights Day Address at Palais des Nations, delivered 6 December 2011, Geneva, Switzerland

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• I think same sex couples should be able to get married.

  Barack Obama

  Sex, Couple, Thinking

  "Obama backs same-sex marriage". "Nightly News" with Brian Williams, www.nbcnews.com. May 09, 2012.

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  Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.

  Bernard Baruch

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Life, Positive, Meaningful

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have been to this point unwilling to sign on to same-sex marriage primarily because of my understandings of the traditional definitions of marriage. But I also think you're right that attitudes evolve, including mine.

  Barack Obama

  Sex, Attitude, Gay

  "Obama on Marriage: 'Attitudes Evolve, Including Mine'". Interview with Joe Sudbay, www.advocate.com. October 27, 2010.

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• If adjustment is necessary, it should be made primarily with regard to the position the homosexual occupies in present-day society, and society should more often be treated than the homosexual.

  Harry Benjamin

  Gay, Often Is, Made

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• I've called on Congress to repeal the so-called Defense of Marriage Act to help end discrimination to help end discrimination against same-sex couples in this country. Now, I want to add we have a duty to uphold existing law, but I believe we must do so in a way that does not exacerbate old divides. And fulfilling this duty in upholding the law in no way lessens my commitment to reversing this law. I've made that clear.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Sex, Couple

  "Sweet Speech, Mr. President - But Where Was the Apology? And Where’s the Action?" By Karen Ocamb, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 1, 2009.

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• [Button] If Gay and Lesbian people are given civil rights, soon everyone will want them

  James Howe

  Gay, Rights, Lgbt Pride

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• On Hillary Clinton, who was an ardent Goldwater supporter in 1964: 'If he'd let his wife run business, I think he'd be better off. ... I just like the way she acts. I've never met her, but I sent her a bag of chili, and she invited me to come to the White House some night and said she'd cook chili for me. Someday, maybe.'

  Barry Goldwater

  Running, Religious, Gay

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• A lot of attention has been going to social values - abortion, gay rights, other divisive issues - but economic values are equally important.

  Robert Reich

  Gay, Social Values, Rights

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• I am who I am because of the people who influenced me growing up, and many of them were gay. No one has any right to tell anyone what makes a family

  Drew Barrymore

  Growing Up, Gay, Who I Am

  "21 Celebrities Who Champion LGBTQ Rights" by Katie O'Malley, www.elle.com. June 22, 2016.

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• To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching.

  Warren E. Burger

  Teacher, Teaching, Rights

  "Does the same-sex marriage ruling mean trouble for other LGBT rights cases?" by Scott Lemieux, www.theguardian.com. June 26, 2015.

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• It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It's like disapproving of rain.

  Francis Maude

  Rain, Gay, Lgbt Pride

  "UK Politics 'Your Family Matters Most'". The Sunday Times Interview, news.bbc.co.uk. November 15, 1998.

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• I've always felt that homophobic attitudes and policies were unjust and unworthy of a free society and must be opposed by all Americans who believe in democracy. The civil rights movement thrives on unity and inclusion, not division and exclusion. My husband's struggle parallels that of the gay rights movement.

  Coretta Scott King

  Husband, Attitude, Believe

  Chicago Sun Times, April 1, 1998.

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• The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.

  Gore Vidal

  Gay, Lgbt Pride, Important

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• Mothers, tell your children: be quick, you must be strong. Life is full of wonder, love is never wrong. Remember how they taught you, how much of it was fear. Refuse to hand it down - the legacy stops here.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Mother, Strong, Children

  Song: Silent Legacy, Album: Yes I Am

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• Finally, fighting for gay rights, speaking out in various places and making friends, men and women, was great.

  George Weinberg

  Friends, Fighting, Gay

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• What are you trying to protect heterosexual marriages from? There isn't a limited amount of love in Iowa. It isn't a non-renewable resource. If Amy and Barbara or Mike and Steve love each other, it doesn't mean that John and Mary can't.

  Ed Fallon

  Mean, Gay, Iowa

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• No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Being Yourself, Lonely, Loneliness

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