Gay Rights Quotes - Page 5

• I'm a UFC fighter, a macho-type sport. I am a heterosexual guy in a tough macho sport, which is exactly the reason I feel a duty to say I support gay marriage and gay rights. I have nothing to gain personally from supporting this issue, and that's the point. Society as a whole is better when there is equality, and I want to live in a country where everyone has the same rights because we all benefit from that.

  Rashad Evans

  Sports, Country, Gay

  "UFC Fighter Rashad Evans Comes Out In Support Of Gay Marriage" by Jim Budzinski, www.businessinsider.com. March 13, 2013,.

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• Straight Americans need... an education of the heart and soul. They must understand - to begin with - how it can feel to spend years denying your own deepest truths, to sit silently through classes, meals, and church services while people you love toss off remarks that brutalize your soul.

  Bruce Bawer

  Heart, Gay, Years

  "If Davide Geffen or Elton John is rich, isn't it a sigh of God's favor?". The Advocate Magazine, April 28, 1998.

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• I was reminded that it is my obligation not only as an elected official in a pluralistic society, but also as a Christian, to remain open to the possibility that my unwillingness to support gay marriage is misguided.

  Barack Obama

  Christian, Gay, Support

  Barack Obama (2006). “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream”, p.223, Crown

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• I don't spend much time in it. I go in there for my lunch and for coffee in the afternoon. I'd rarely be in there at night. I don't think it's neccessarily a bad thing but if it's abused obviously it's a bad thing.

  Lucinda Creighton

  Coffee, Gay, Night

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• My mother took me to a psychiatrist when I was fifteen because she thought I was a latent homosexual. There was nothing latent about it.

  Amanda Bearse

  Mother, Gay, Lgbt

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• Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Hilarious, Sexy

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 1 Dec. 1975

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• The gay rights movement is not a party. It is not a lifestyle. It is not a hair style. It is not a fad or a fringe or a sickness. It is not about sin or salvation. The gay rights movement is an integral part of the American promise of freedom.

  Urvashi Vaid

  Party, Gay, Rights

  At the March on Washington, April 25, 1993.

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• In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Gay, Men, Heterosexuality Is

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• Every one of my positions cuts - out half the country. I'm pro-choice, I'm pro-gay rights, I'm pro-immigration, I'm against guns, I believe in Darwin.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Country, Believe, Cutting

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• I've always been infuriated by Bertie, I have to say. I never appreciated his style of politics. I thought it was very superficial, running around the country opening crisp packets, as they say, never really engaging with the substance of what was being debated and it clearly had a hugely negative impact on this country.

  Lucinda Creighton

  Running, Country, Gay

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• If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Being Yourself, Being Single, Gay

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• If you give up on the idea that your voice can make a difference, then other voices will fill the void: lobbyists and special interests; the people with the $10 million checks who are trying to buy this election and those who are making it harder for you to vote; Washington politicians who want to decide who you can marry, or control health care choices that women should make for themselves.

  Barack Obama

  Giving Up, Gay, Differences

  Second Democratic Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 6 September 2012, Charlotte, North Carolina

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• Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake - you know, to send the right message to kids.

  Bill Maher

  Kids, Gay, Law

  Bill Maher (2006). “New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer”, p.158, Rodale

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• The arc of American history almost inevitably moves toward freedom. Whether it's Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, the expansion of women's rights or, now, gay rights, I think there is an almost-inevitable march toward greater civil liberties.

  James McGreevey

  Moving, Gay, Thinking

  "Jersey Boy". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. April 29, 2009.

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• There were a lot of Romneys. There's the Romney who was going to be better on gay rights than Ted Kennedy; now there's a Romney who checks with Rick Santorum on that issue.

  Barney Frank

  Gay, Rights, Issues

  "Frank rants against 'Myth Romney'" by Kevin Crilli, www.politico.com. September 6, 2012.

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• It has long been a bug bear of mine... it needs to change, very simply.

  Lucinda Creighton

  Gay, Long, Needs

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• I am reminded of a colleague who reiterated all my homosexual patients are quite sick - to which I finally replied so are all my heterosexual patients.

  Ernest Van den Haag

  Gay, Lgbt Pride, Sick

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• If you believe in equal rights, then what do “women’s rights,” “gay rights,” etc., mean? Either they are redundant or they are violations of the principle of equal rights for all.

  Thomas Sowell

  Believe, Mean, Gay

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• Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.

  Boethius

  Love, Valentines Day, Law

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• We've made so many advances in other areas - civil rights, gay rights - but ageism is still an area that's taboo and not talked about and dealt with.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Gay, Rights, Made

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• You've got these twenty million people who call themselves the Evangelical Christians who will put their hand up and say, I believe in the devil, I'm against abortion and gay rights, and we have to blow up the world. It's frightening.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Christian, Believe, Gay

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I think Enda Kenny has shown himself to be a good leader in the sense that he can accept that people might have differences of opinion with him, but at the same time can see that it's useful to have them involved and part of the team and I very much appreciate that.

  Lucinda Creighton

  Team, Gay, Thinking

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• Another Thing I'm Sick of Hearing: If I started that gay rights group, I must be gay. So if i start an animal rights group, what does that make me? A giraffe?

  James Howe

  Gay, Animal, Rights

  James Howe (2012). “Addie on the Inside”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

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• I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.

  Ken Livingstone

  Gay, Rights, London

  "Ken Livingstone: 'This isn't a race to elect a chat-show host'". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2012.

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• Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

  Dr. Seuss

  Life, Smile, Graduation

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