Evan Wolfson Quotes

#1. Evan Wolfson is a dear friend of mine. Almost more than any other, Evan is responsible for bringing the issue of marriage equality to the forefront of our struggle for civil rights. He is a courageous pioneer who has been relentless in this battle for marriage equality.

David Mixner

#2. I'm not in this just to change the law. It's about changing society. I want gay kids to grow up believing that they can get married, that they can join the Scouts, that they can choose the life they want to live.

Evan Wolfson

#3. He was free to enjoy the breathless glee that overwhelmed him: the speed, the clear cold air, the total silence, the feeling of balance and excitement and peace.

Lois Lowry

#4. Marriage is a language of love, equality, and inclusion.

Evan Wolfson

#5. Sometimes the way to share your love is to let someone go.

Bryant McGill

#6. I think there's tremendous significance and opportunity in Americans seeing legally married gay couples treated with respect in our nation's capital.

Evan Wolfson

#7. The best person to get something done is a busy person.

Mark Burnett

#8. The whole tenour of female education ... tends to render the best disposed romantic and inconstant; and the remainder vain and mean.

Mary Wollstonecraft

#9. I have my meals delivered ... you know what I like? Chicken and rice ... But the problem with being a defensive lineman is, if we get out of hand with our eating, we balloon up to, like, 300-some pounds. So I really got to watch what I eat.

Hugh Douglas

#10. What is so powerful here is that we have the first federal appellate court and it's a case coming out of Utah affirming in the strongest, clearest, boldest terms that the Constitution guarantees the freedom to marry and equal protection for all Americans and all means all, including gay couples.

Evan Wolfson

#11. Notes are expensive ... spend them wisely

B.B. King

#12. When it comes to federal programs, even if states are discriminating, the federal government should not.

Evan Wolfson

#13. Buried deep within each one of us lies a treasure. It is our mission in this lifetime to find this treasure, but its exact location is known only by the dragon that guards it.

Lawren Leo

#14. I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts.

Rachel Weisz

#15. There is no marriage without engagement

Evan Wolfson

#16. We're giving them a real lesson today. Heavy doesn't accurately describe the level of casualties we have inflicted.

Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf