Gay Rights Inspirational Quotes

#1. Blindness separates people from things;
deafness separates people from people.

Helen Keller

#2. The emancipation of woman will only be possible when woman can take part in production on a large, social scale, and domestic work no longer claims anything but an insignificant amount of her time.

Friedrich Engels

#3. To every person who has never experienced genuine love and kindness, may you still have the strength to find the love and light that exists within your soul to give, thrive, and shine.

Leta B.

#4. The pressures on gay teens can be overwhelming
to keep secrets, tell lies, deny who you are, and try to be who you're not. Remember: you are special and worth being cared about, loved, and accepted just as you are. Never, ever let anyone convince you otherwise.

Alex Sanchez

#5. We are currently facing many hurdles, BUT will never lose the sight of infinite hope.

Widad Akreyi

#6. SHOW THE WORLD YOUR STRONG COMPASSION!
GIVE YOUR VOICE TO VOICELESS KOBANE KIDS!

Widad Akreyi

#7. It is by standing up for the rights of girls and women that we truly measure up as men.

Desmond Tutu

#8. I will follow anyone ...
And remind everyone ...
Of enslaved Yazidi women ...
Raped ...
And forced ...
To donate blood to ISIS men ...

Widad Akreyi

#9. The Americans were understandably on hair triggers. There was a good reason for all of this security. For despite TV images of quick victory, much of Baghdad certainly had not fallen and firefights with die-hard Ba'athists loyal to Saddam Hussein were raging all over the city.

Lawrence Anthony

#10. Women empowerment begins at home!

Alex Haditaghi

#11. Women don't like to be told what to do. They like to be the ones telling us what to do. You want her to do something, you're gonna have to go about it a different way.

Cambria Hebert

#12. Poverty is often equated with liability. How cruel this world is?

Moutasem Algharati

#13. Human rights are not things that are put on the table for people to enjoy. These are things you fight for and then you protect.

Wangari Maathai

#14. The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die

Martin Luther King Jr.

#15. When people ask me why I still have hope and energy after all these years, I always say: Because I travel.

Gloria Steinem

#16. May you let the authentic colors of your heart illuminate and may you feel the light within others.

Leta B.

#17. Among individuals, as among nations, respect for the rights of others is peace.

Benito Juarez

#18. I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE ... AND BEG EVERYONE ... TO HELP RESCUE ALL IMPRISONED WOMEN.

Widad Akreyi

#19. Every second you spend holding someone else back is time not running the race yourself.

Rebecca Murphy

#20. Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens.

David Cameron

#21. The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

John F. Kennedy

#22. If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door.

Harvey Milk

#23. The founding of our Nation was more than a political event; it was an act of faith, a promise to Americans and to the entire world. The Declaration of Independence declared that people can govern themselves, that they can live in freedom with equal rights, that they can respect the rights of others.

Jimmy Carter

#24. My father did not have to trade dying alone for the joys of the road. My mother did not have to give up a journey of her own to have a home. Neither do I. Neither do you.

Gloria Steinem

#25. My rights are not derived from any government. My rights are not denied by any majority. My rights are because I exist.

Joe Biden

#26. The greatest evil in our country today is...ignorance...We need to be taught to study rather than to believe.

Septima Poinsette Clark

#27. They think the recipe for a 'home-maker' is- a woman who isn't smart enough, lacks skills and above all isn't ambitious enough! Well she is every bit as smart as the woman who puts on a suit to go to work in a man's world to prove- times have changed! She is every bit as intelligent!

Mrinalini Mitra

#28. No matter how dark the cloud, there is always a thin, silver lining, and that is what we must look for. The silver lining will come, if not to us then to next generation or the generation after that. And maybe with that generation the lining will no longer be thin.

Wangari Maathai

#29. You have a chance to save lives! If you don't take it, you may regret it!

Widad Akreyi

#30. I am in everything that stands for justice and the natural rights of free men everywhere.I am American Amaranth

J.R. Ortiz

#31. Don't ever brag about the funds(money) of your parents because they might leave wuth it when their time comes instead strive to make yours and have your personal bragging rights

Chuka Osa-Afiana

#32. Who knows what the long-term effects of saving rescue dogs are and the healing lessons and love they bring to Earth? Each one of us has the capacity to influence hundreds - even thousands of people or animals through the way we live our lives.

Jadi Kindred

#33. A world that does not love, respect and protect its Women is doomed to perish! Because Women are Mother Earth!

Avijeet Das

#34. But perhaps the most important lesson I learned is that there are no walls between humans and the elephants except those that we put up ourselves, and that until we allow not only elephants, but all living creatures their place in the sun, we can never be whole ourselves.

Lawrence Anthony

#35. Do not fight for your rights on streets. Do it elegantly within you!

Goran Spasa

#36. No ONE MENTIONS YOUR TEARS, SADNESS OR SLOW DEATH! BUT, WE FEEL YOUR FALLEN TEARS, YOUR BEHEADED BODIES, YOUR RAPED DIGNITY!

Widad Akreyi

#37. In this world of rights, the one who dares to be wrong, discovers the truth.

Saurabh Sharma

#38. The earth had two children
A son named Adam
and a daughter

Karan Patade

#39. The Purpose of life is to thrive and save lives with passion! Save Yazidis today with love and compassion!

Widad Akreyi

#40. Every person has the choice to contribute to or drain from this world.

Leta B.

#41. Which do I care more about - demanding my rights or displaying right choices?

Lysa TerKeurst

#42. As a bird has the right to sing, so shall every human being have the right to think and express thoughts.

Debasish Mridha

#43. It's hard not to be a fighter when you're constantly under siege.

Cassandra Duffy

#44. Don't give up the fight,
Stand up for your rights.

Bob Marley

#45. In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.

Sheryl Sandberg

#46. WE KNOW YOU ARE SURROUNDED BY DARKNESS ...
IN THE TERROR FOREST!
WE HOPE FOR MOONLIGHT!

Widad Akreyi

#47. A girl has the power to go forward in her life. And she's not only a mother, she's not only a sister, she's not only a wife. But a girl has the - she should have an identity. She should be recognized and she has equal rights as a boy.

Malala Yousafzai

#48. Human kind is made up of two sexes, women and men. Is it possible that a mass is improved by the improvement of only one part and the other part is ignored? Is it possible that if half of a mass is tied to earth with chains and the other half can soar into skies?

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

#49. I don't mind people talking about me behind my back. It means they know me, and I'm out in front.

David Lucero

#50. Education for women is something that has plagued the world for a very long time. When I saw this problem firsthand, I knew I had to write about it.

Sahndra Fon Dufe

#51. The rights of others often begins with the fight for justice of one.

Judith K. Witherow

#52. YAZIDIS AND CHRISTIANS WANT TO BE FREE OF NIGHT MIST AND BEHEADING DRIFT!

Widad Akreyi

#53. Our society is obsessed with personal rights, but it will survive only if we adopt personal obligations.

Dennis Prager

#54. When you expect a man to create your world of dreams, you fall into the doctrine against women and strengthen what we are supposed to fight back and demolish.

Namrata Kumari

#55. Books have played a role in almost every one of the world's great civil and human rights movements, but only because people who read them decided to act. Reading brings with it responsibility.

Will Schwalbe

#56. Think think think until you blink

Ganeshsaidheeraj

#57. May you have the courage to choose love over hate.

Leta B.

#58. Get off of my shoulders. The foundation has been laid, now its time for you to build on it and get to work.

Amelia Boynton Robinson

#59. The bottom line is that you only have the rights you fight for.

Tim Ferriss

#60. I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE... AND DEMONSTRATE TO EVERYONE... THAT THEIR FEAR IS GENUINE

Widad Akreyi

#61. Feminism is not a one size fits all kinda thing but anyone can wear it.

Jess

#62. ISIS BEHEADS CIVILIANS WHILE WORLD KEEPS FORGETTING WHAT VICTIMS' SOULS R BEGGING:
HUMANITY SAVE KOBANE

Widad Akreyi

#63. The beauty of standing up for your rights is others will see you standing and stand up as well.

Cassandra Duffy

#64. Legislators, priests, philosophers, writers, ans scientists have striven to show that the subordinate position of woman is willed in heaven and advantageous on earth.

Simone De Beauvoir

#65. Until we align our minds with our souls,
we will continue to grieve for our highest selves as individuals, a society, and as a world family.

Leta B.

#66. Freedom ... Freedom does not exist with personal responsibility!

Joseph P. Sekula

#67. The constitution does not recognize different classes of citizenship based on time spent living in the country. I am a citizen, with the same rights as your son, or you. As a citizen, and as a student, I am protesting the tone of this lesson as racist, intolerant, and xenophobic.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#68. Be careful if you make a women cry, because God counts her tears. The woman came out of a man's ribs. Not from his feet to be walked on, not from his head to be superior, but from his side to be equal, under the arm to be protected, and next to the heart to be loved.

Matthew Henry

#69. A good motivation is what is needed: compassion without dogmatism, without complicated philosophy; just understanding that others are human brothers and sisters and respecting their human rights and dignities. That we humans can help each other is one of our unique human capacities.

Dalai Lama

#70. My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and nonviolent pressure.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#71. I wrote this book for the Nelson Mandela's of our communities who are willing to stand up for change and people who are oppressed or suppressed from fulfilling their life's purpose

Sahndra Fon Dufe

#72. We don't need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.

Philip Pullman

#73. If God is really my Father, I have rights, and He has responsibilities. I hereby claim my birthright to be protected, educated, and provided for!

Stefan Emunds

#74. We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence.

Philip Pullman

#75. America- often called the land of milk and honey- tends to be sweeter, more generous to those who don't rock the boat.

Sarah Mullen

Erin Passons

#76. Marriage isn't about rights as much as it is about revelation.

Gary Thomas

#77. Gratitude is a sign of maturity ... Where there is appreciation: there is also courtesy and concern for the rights and property of others.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#78. I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE
AND THANK EVERYONE
WHO TRIES TO MAKE
A DIFFERENCE IN THE LIVES
OF VULNERABLE CIVILIANS

Widad Akreyi

#79. Life's struggle is a partnership. We fight and win together, or we truly lose the vision of our powerful spirituality and awesome oneness.

Maya Emmett

#80. Only until all human beings begin to recognize themselves as human beings will prejudice be gone forever. People ask me what race I am, but there is no such thing as race. I just answer: "I'm a member of the human race.

Amelia Boynton Robinson

#81. IT'S ALL CLEAR
ISIS INVADES YOUR SPHERE
YET NO ONE IMAGINES YOUR FEAR
BUT DON'T WORRY
TAUSSI MELEK IS HERE
RESTORING LIVES NEAR

Widad Akreyi

#82. Feed two birds with one crumb.

Mischa Temaul

#83. We will have an unchallenged, open, panoramic opportunity on a global scale to demonstrate the finest aspects of what we know in this country: peace, freedom, democracy, human rights, benevolent sharing, love, the easing of human suffering.
Is that going to be our list of priorities or not?

Jimmy Carter

#84. American women rock on both fields: bed and on the green grass.

Santosh Kalwar

#85. In all you do, speak up for the human rights of others. Become the voice for those who face oppression and can't speak for themselves. Each time you do ... you help humanity take steps to a brighter, peaceful world.

Timothy Pina

#86. Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.

Martin Luther King Jr.