More quotes to share that I have found since Torn Apart: United by Love, Divided by Law was published by Findhorn Press…
“If anybody can find someone to love them and to help them through this difficult thing that we call life, I support that in any shape or form.”
– Actor Will Smith speaking to reporters in Berlin after President Obama’s statement of support for marriage equality.
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A great day in our fight for civil rights-President Obama adds his support for marriage #equality. #BeautifulDay
-House Minority Leader Sen. Nancy Pelosi, @NancyPelosi
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“Same-sex couples should be able to get married.”
—President Obama, May 9, 2012, @BarackObama
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“I’m thrilled!” longshot GOP presidential candidate Fred Karger told HuffPost, referring to Obama’s embrace of marriage equality. Karger is the first openly gay Republican or Democrat to run for president. “The Karger pressure has worked,” he joked. “Particularly after the defeat in North Carolina, we welcome him to the full equality position.”
-Fred Karger, openly gay Republican Presidential candidate, 2012
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“For the first time in this nation’s history, a sitting president has shown the courage and leadership to stand up for all American families by pledging to support the fundamental right of every person to marry the person they love, and to have that marriage fully respected. I commend President Obama for this brave and honest step. Those who seek to politicize civil rights for personal or political gain will certainly attack him, but the course toward marriage equality and justice is the correct and inevitable path.”
-Jerrold Nadler, D-NY-8
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“This is a major turning point in the history of American civil rights,” said New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg. “No American president has ever supported a major expansion of civil rights that has not ultimately been adopted by the American people – and I have no doubt that this will be no exception. The march of freedom that has sustained our country since the Revolution of 1776 continues, and no matter what setbacks may occur in a given state, freedom will triumph over fear and equality will prevail over exclusion. Today’s announcement is a testament to the President’s convictions, and it builds on the courageous stands that so many Americans have taken over the years on behalf of equal rights for gay and lesbian Americans, stretching back to the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village.”
-New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, after President Obama announced support for same-sex marriage May 9, 2012
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“I’ll be there on every vote. I’ll be there not just to provide a vote, but leadership, and I think that’s what the LGBT community really needs.”
– Elizabeth Warren, Massachusetts senate candidate, in an interview with the Washington Blade. Warren also said she wanted to see Obama finish his “evolution” on marriage equality and endorsed the pro-marriage equality plank in the Democratic platform. From The Bilerico Project, March 25, 2012
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“Brothers and Sisters, you must come out! Come out to your parents, come out to your friends, if indeed they are your friends, come out to your neighbors, come out to your fellow workers. Once and for all, let’s break down the myth and destroy the lies and distortions. For your sake, for their sake. For the sake of all the youngsters who’ve been scared.”
- Harvey Milk
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“When push comes to shove, union members, regardless of their personal views, stand on the side of social justice.”
–Fred D. Mason Jr., president of the Maryland State and District of Columbia AFL-CIO, speaking about union support for legislation that would give same-sex couples the right to marry, as quoted by The Washington Post
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“I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“I can’t be the victim….The circumstances, the inequality of that night — then I was. But not anymore. I learned that I can bring honor not only to Kate’s memory, but to my life.”
- Charlene Strong to The Seattle Times – November 14, 2011
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“I’m just trying to change the world, one sequin at a time.”
- Lady Gaga
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“I don’t think I’m a hero – the heroes are people who spend their entire lives trying to help others.”
- Daniel Hernandez, Jr.
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“I had to come out because it was too hard not being myself.”
- Kye Allums
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“My poetry is disjunct, but then so is life.”
- John Ashbery
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“The [comic] strip is about all kinds of things, not just gay and lesbian issues—births, deaths and everything in-between happen to everyone.”
- Alison Bechdel (Dykes to Watch Out For)
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“Each time we act against discrimination, we add a ring of life to the American tree of liberty.”
- John Berry
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“I’m not on a show with a pink triangle or rainbow flag – which means that being gay is just a part of who I am.”
- Keith Boykin
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“I heard the story of Harvey Milk and it gave me hope that I could live my life openly as who I am.”
- Dustin Lance Black
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“Don’t ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn’t grow there.”
- Rita Mae Brown
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“Action and sacrifice speak much more loudly than the best crafted, eloquent speech.”
- Dan Choi
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“To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and
inconceivable.”
- Aaron Copland, 1900 – 1990
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“We need to do everything we can to counteract hatred and shame and we need to be strong in this fight.”
- Alan Cumming
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“I believe God made me just as I am. That is all I need to know, that I am exactly who God created me to be!”
- Rabbi Denise Eger
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“Leaders are judged not only by the challenges they tackle, but by those they fail to address.”
- Michael Guest
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“I am quite proud to say that I am a very content gay man living my life to the fullest.”
- Neil Patrick Harris
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“I don’t think I’m a hero – the heroes are people who spend their entire lives trying to help others.”
- Daniel Hernandez, Jr.
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“What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or does it fester like a sore – and then run?”
- Langston Hughes
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“Painting completed my life.”
- Frida Kahlo
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“What they’re doing now is to make it more harsh on people, anyone promoting homosexuality is being criminalized.”
- David Kato
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“If every gay person in Australia stood up and said this is me, get over it, the whole shabby charade would be finished.”
- Michael Kirby
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“I have been very fortunate to have a successful career as a public servant, and I feel an obligation to serve my community as a role model as well.”
- Victoria Kolakowski
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“I hear from people all over the world that my coming out has empowered them in their search for self.”
- Dave Kopay
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“I am a fortunate homosexual man. I am very blessed to be who I am.”
- Ricky Martin
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“Whether it’s in the right way or sometimes the wrong way, you learn about life and its lessons.”
- Amelie Mauresmo
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“Stand up like I did. It was hard but it was worth it.”
-Constance McMillen
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“I dealt with my sexuality at a very early age. I didn’t have a struggle, and I know so many people who were terrified of dealing with it.”
-Ryan Murphy
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“I thought, when I was a kid, that my mother and father would be devastated if I ever told them I was gay.”
-Dan Savage
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“I’d rather not be the first but someone has to be.”
- Amanda Simpson
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“They pissed off the wrong group of people. Instead of having gay marriage in California, we’re going to get it across the country.”
- Wanda Sykes
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“We were laying the groundwork for what we hoped would be later activism that would give homosexuals equal rights.”
- Lilli Vincenz
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“Language is wine upon the lips.”
- Virginia Woolf
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“As gay young people, we are marginalized. As young people who are HIV-positive and have AIDS, we are totally written off.”
- Pedro Zamora
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“I absolutely believe that writing and publishing erotica, especially for minorities, is a political act. We must write our own stories, our own truths, otherwise our detractors and enemies will do it for us.”
- Tristan Taormino
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“Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.”
- Mahatma Gandhi
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“Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it’s not acceptable.”
- Jodie Foster
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“Today, every American can be proud that we have taken another great step toward keeping our military the finest in the world and toward fulfilling our nation’s founding ideals.”
—President Obama in a statement marking the end of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” on September 20, 2011
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“We must love one another or die.”
- Oft-quoted line after 9/11 from one of W. H. Auden’s poems
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“If you want Others to be happy, practice compassion. If You want to be happy, practice compassion.”
- Dalai Lama
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“There are 581,300 same-sex couples in the United States; 6 percent of same-sex couples are binational.”
- Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law, study of the 2000 census data
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“Gay people who want to marry have no desire to redefine marriage in any way. When women got the vote they did not redefine voting. When African-Americans got the right to sit at a lunch counter alongside white people, they did not redefine eating out. They were simply invited to the table…We have no desire to change marriage. We want to be entitled to not only the same privileges, but the same responsibilities as straight people.”
- Cynthia Nixon
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“Put simply, under DOMA, the Federal government does not treat people equally or fairly….The ‘Respect for Marriage Act’ would right DOMA’s wrong.”
- Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)
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“Marriage is going to strengthen my family and it’s going to strengthen all New York families.”
- Openly gay New York State Senator Duane, the lead sponsor of the marriage bill.
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“To be beautiful means to be yourself.”
- Thich Nhat Hanh
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“The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.”
- Thich Nhat Hanh
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“Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, simply surrounded by assholes.”
- William Gibson
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“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”
-Maya Angelou
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“The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about.”
- Wayne Dyer
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“Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore. We have seen the future, and the future is ours.”
– Cesar Chavez
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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
- Oscar Wilde
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“An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.”
-Mohandas Gandhi
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“The greatest challenge as human beings is to Be Here Now. Be in the moment. Remember, you sent your Self this moment as a gift.”
- Neale Donald Walsch
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“We must generate courage equal to the size of the difficulties we face.”
- The Dalai Lama
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“Normal is not something to aspire to, it’s something to get away from.”
- Jodie Foster
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“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”
- Helen Keller
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“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace -
- Sri Chinmoy Ghose, posted on RuPaul’s Facebook page
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“The best way to solve a problem is to tell the truth about it.”
- Jose Antonio Vargas, Pulitzer prize-winning journalist who came out as gay and undocumented in summer 2011
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“I think marriage is up to two people that love each other.”
- Kelsey Grammer
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“The moral arc of the universe bends toward justice.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“This action (overturning deportation of Henry Velandia) shows that the government has not only the power but the inclination to do the right thing when it comes to protecting certain vulnerable populations from deportation.” said the couple’s lawyer,
- Lavi Soloway, Josh and Henry’s lawyer
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“People inflict pain on others in their selfish pursuit of happiness and satisfaction. Yet true happiness comes from a sense of brotherhood and sisterhood. We need to cultivate a sense of universal responsibility for one another and the planet we share.”
- His Holiness, the Dalai Lama
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“… (S)upport of the President would be very welcomed. I hope he endorses my bill to repeal DOMA.”
– Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-CA, June 23, 2011
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“It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It’s like disapproving of rain.”
- Francis Maude
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“I stand here as a woman of the world and I ask governments, with you, worldwide to facilitate our dream of equality…let us be revolutionaries of love and use our very strong human powers to save lives and encourage unity around the world.”
- Lady Gaga, At Circus Maximus in Rome, during EuroPride, June 11, 2011
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“The most political thing U can do is to follow your heart.”
- RuPaul
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“An estimated 54,000 bi-national same-sex couples live in the United States. Not all of them are married.”
- The Williams Institute at UCLA
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“I feel like this is some sort of justice for us, for our family. I’m so grateful. I’m so thankful.”
-Lakeesha Harris, an Illinois lesbian who stood in line with her partner to be among the first in the state to apply for a civil union license, as quoted by The Chicago Sun-Times.
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“Americans with partners from other countries should not be faced with a painful choice between staying with their partner or staying in their country”
- from the fact sheet accompanying President Obama’s LGBT Community web page released with the May 31, 2011 Pride Month statement
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“If a man hasn’t discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“Don’t be a marshmallow. Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk. Stop being vegetables. Work for justice!”
- Dolores Huerta
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“After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’”
- W. S. Burroughs
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“Justice is what love looks like in public.”
- Dr. Cornel West
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“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
-George Bernard Shaw
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“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.”
- Pericles
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“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
- Anais Nin
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“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.”
-Mark Twain
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“Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.”
- Janis Joplin
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“All young people, regardless of sexual orientation or identity, deserve a safe and supportive environment in which to achieve their full potential.”
-Harvey Milk
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“It takes no compromising to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no survey to remove repressions.”
- Harvey Milk
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“We are here together with others…in fact, it is the otherness of others that makes me who I am…for all I have gone through in life, I still have faith…I have faith in humanity…I have faith in God though I argue with Him all the time…”
- Eli Wiesel, ”Memory and Ethics”, Commencement Address, Washington University in St. Louis, May 20, 2011
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“Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.”
- Coretta Scott King
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“I didn’t want to die, now, but I didn’t have any fear of doing what I had to do. I knew what was happening was wrong. And I had an opportunity to do something about it.”
- Catherine Burks-Brooks, 71, who, as a senior at Tennessee A&I State University, took part in the first Freedom Ride in May 1961. (Source: USA Today)
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“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.”
- Harriet Tubman
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“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.”
- Bishop Desmond Tutu
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“Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.”
- St. Catherine of Siena, quoted in Prince Willliam and Catherine’s wedding service, April 29, 2011
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“Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“When a stranger resides with you in your land, you shall not wrong him. The stranger who resides with you shall be to you as one of your citizens; you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.”
Leviticus 19:33, Passover Week Facebook post from Alyson
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“It is Love that holds everything together, and it is the everything also.”
- Rumi
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“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.”
- James Dean
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“The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.”
- Albert Einstein
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“The most effective way to do it is to do it.”
- Amelia Earhart
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“The time is always right to do what is right.”
- Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“The person who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”
- Anonymous
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“Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.”
- Helen Keller (1880 – 1968)
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“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path.”
- Buddha
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“This is the right thing to do for Henry, Josh and countless others who are being victimized by this discriminatory and unconstitutional law.”
–Rep. Rush Holt, D-N.J.,
in a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano asking the federal government to stop deporting gay and lesbian foreign nationals who are legally married to U.S. citizens, as quoted by The Associated Press
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“Intuition does not come to an unprepared mind.”
- Albert Einstein
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“When we can find delight in every moment then we are being of service to our fellow man. May we always know joy is freedom.”
- new Findhorn Press author Dave Bennett
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“A ban on same-sex marriage is not going to make people less gay.”
- Indianapolis Star columnist Erika D. Smith
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“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined….”
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.”
- Albert Einstein
“If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.”
- Maya Angelou
“I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.”
- Michael Jordan
“A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.”
- Harry S. Truman, 33rd President of the United States
“Do not wait for leaders. Do it alone, person to person.”
— Mother Teresa
“There comes a time in life when, if you want inclusion, you better include yourself.”
- Cyndi Lauper, Give a Damn Campaign Founder
“Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed…You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore. We have seen the future, and the future is ours.”
- Cesar Chavez
“We don’t have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.”
- Howard Zinn
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“Al andar se hace el camino… (By walking one makes the road…)”
- Antonio Machado
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“Justice is what love looks like in public.”
- Cornel West
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“Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.”
- Janis Joplin
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“The difference in winning and losing is most often, not quitting.”
- Walt Disney
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“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”
- Mohandas Gandhi
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“Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?”
- Ernest Gaines
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“If we don’t have a seat at the table, then we’re on the menu!”
- Barney Frank
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“It’s all about hope, kindness and a connection with one another.”
- Elizabeth Taylor (RIP 1932-2011)
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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.”
- Dr. Seuss
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“Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel.”
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“Be the change that you want to see in the world.”
- Mahatma Gandhi
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“Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.’”
-C.S. Lewis
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“Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.”
- Sigmund Freud
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“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
– Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“All men and all women are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.”
—Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” -Nelson Mandela
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“Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“Whoever is happy will make others happy too.”
- Anne Frank
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“I can foresee now an end to legal inequality based on sexual orientation and gender equality some time in my lifetime.”
–Barney Frank, who’s 70
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“The time is always right to do what is right.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.”
- John F. Kennedy
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“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.”
- Abraham Lincoln
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“The proof that one truly believes is in action.”
- Bayard Rustin
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“Yesterday, the Obama administration announced that it would no longer defend the ‘Defense of Marriage Act’ in court. This demonstrates how much the political climate has changed regarding LGBT issues. It is both a sign of and a result of the fact that gay prejudice is being defeated by gay reality.”
- Barney Frank
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“A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.”
- Daisaku Ikeda
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“If you assume that there is no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, that there are opportunities to change things, then there is a possibility that you can contribute to making a better world.”
- Noam Chomsky
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“Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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“Always do right – this will gratify some and astonish the rest.”
- Mark Twain
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“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.”
- Seneca
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“I think it’s important that everyday we think about the work we need to do to make this world a better place. I mean, we should wake up thinking about it and go to bed thinking about tomorrow’s tasks. There’s an awful lot of change needing to be made around here.”
Jacqueline Woodson
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“The price of the ticket for life is to leave the world in a different place than you found it, to leave the world a better place than you found it.”
Phill Wilson
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“If you feel like there’s something out there that you’re supposed to be doing, if you have a passion for it, then stop wishing and just do it.”
Wanda Sykes
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“No matter how far life pushes you down, no matter how much you hurt, you can always bounce back.”
Sheryl Swoopes
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“We are all one. And if we don’t know it, we will learn it the hard way.”
Bayard Rustin
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“When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
Audre Lorde
“Living and dying is not the big issue. The big issue is what you’re going to do with your time while you are here.”
Bill T. Jones
“Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.”
Langston Hughes
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that….”
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“I want people to know they don’t have to live their lives in a permanent ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ existence. Truth is a powerful tool.”
- E. Lynn Harris
“All real and lasting change starts first on the inside and works it way through to the outside. Politically speaking, each person being the change we wish to see in the world is the only stance that can make a lasting difference. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”
- Lorraine Hansberry
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“I, Mabel Hampton, have been a lesbian all my life, for eighty-two years, and I am proud of myself and my people. I would like all my people to be free in this country and all over the world, my gay people and my black people.”
- Mabel Hampton
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“Never turn down a chance to show what you can do.”
- Sharon Farmer
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“There can be no light without the darkness out of which it shines.”
- Peter Gomes
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“Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionary’s life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetime.”
- Lee Daniels
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“Where there is no vision, there is no hope.”
- George Washington Carver
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“People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn’t bother me. It’s other people doing the calling that bothers me.”
- Gladys Bentley
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“Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one’s soul; when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood.”
- Josephine Baker
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“I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.”
- James Baldwin
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“In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.”
- Michael Jackson
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“The world only gets better because people risk something to make it better.”
- Paulo Coelho
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“Let today be that day where we move ever closer to justice for all.”
- Hawaii State Rep. Blake Oshiro, who is openly gay, as Hawaii moved for marriage equality.
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“I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and non-violence are as old as the hills.”
- Mahatma Gandhi
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“When I dare to be powerful — to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
- Audre Lorde
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“A necessary principle is a spirit of oneness of the human race.”
- The Dalai Lama
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“Everything that happens to you is a reflection of what you believe about yourself. We cannot outperform our level of self-esteem. We cannot draw to ourselves more than we think we are worth.”
- Iyanla VanZant
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Don’t let the fear of striking out hold you back.
- Babe Ruth
