Quotes About Discrimination Gay

#1. Love should never mean having to live in fear.

DaShanne Stokes

#2. At Chadham High, the safest place to be gay was in the closet.

Huston Piner

#3. When observers look back 50 years from now, the arguments supporting Florida's ban on same-sex marriage, though just as sincerely held [as views of those who were opposed to interracial marriage], will again seem an obvious pretext for discrimination.

Robert Lewis Hinkle

#4. To my mind Keep Yourself Alive was never really satisfactory. Never had that magic that it should have had.

Brian May

#5. We've got to get rid of this discrimination, this chilling, this bigotry toward gays and lesbians that are reflected in literally hundreds and hundreds of statutes and regulations in this country.

Ralph Nader

#6. I'm really disturbed about the gay marriage thing. Because I think gay people should get married, cause it's their own business ... Because as a Black man, I think you've got to be against any form of discrimination.

Charles Barkley

#7. What does religious freedom mean if we would use it as a cover for hate and privilege?

DaShanne Stokes

#8. Gay and lesbian people, and the children they are raising, wrongfully face discrimination, and I want them to know that I'm on their side.

Juan Pablo Galavis

#9. it suddenly seems to me that the destruction of what should not be, that is, the destruction of what you people call evil, is less just and desirable than the conversion of this evil into what you call good.

Isaac Asimov

#10. Gay adoption is discrimination against children

Pope Francis

#11. Well, I'm not defining good and bad art, except, that art that appeals to me or repels me is good. Art that bores me is bad.

Lucien Carr

#12. For as long as the power of America's diversity is diminished by acts of discrimination and violence against people just because they are black, Hispanic, Asian, Jewish, Muslim or gay, we still must overcome.

Ron Kind

#13. Discrimination at any level sends a harmful message to youth, gay or straight alike, and that discrimination has no place in Scouting.

Gwen Ifill

#14. There is no act of love that is not an act of work or courage. No exceptions.

M. Scott Peck

#15. In my work with young Jewish adults in the gay community, I hear their stories of discrimination, of struggling for acceptance, of feeling invisible not for what they have done but simply for who they are.

Lynn Schusterman

#16. If I saw a restaurant owner refuse to serve a gay couple, I wouldn't eat there anymore. As governor of Indiana, if I were presented a bill that legalized discrimination against any person or group, I would veto it.

Mike Pence

#17. What people do in their own homes is their business, and you can choose to love whoever you love. That's their business. It's no different than discriminating against blacks. It's discrimination, plain and simple

Jay-Z

#18. Maybe Plum was right. There are no good men. Only different degrees of bad ones.

Gemma Burgess

#19. I've fought for religious freedom and I can tell you that anti-gay 'religious freedom' bills aren't it.

DaShanne Stokes

#20. It is cynicism and fear that freeze life; it is faith that thaws it out, releases it, sets it free.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

#21. There are a substantial number of actual victims - of slavery's aftermath, gay bashing, criminal assault, sexual discrimination, physical abuse - whose genuine grievances are trivialized by victim chic. That is the real tragedy. Van

Ken Wilber

#22. They always try to make it like jocks discriminate against gay people. I've been a big proponent of gay marriage for a long time, because as a black person, I can't be in for any form of discrimination at all.

Charles Barkley

#23. My life has been immensely enriched by gay mentors, colleagues and friends, and any discrimination and persecution of gay people is unacceptable.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

#24. Leaders win through logistics. Vision, sure. Strategy, yes. But when you go to war, you need to have both toilet paper and bullets at the right place at the right time. In other words, you must win through superior logistics.

Tom Peters

#25. We cannot keep turning our backs on gay and lesbian Americans. I have fought too hard and too long against discrimination based on race and color not to stand up against discrimination based on sexual orientation.

John E. Lewis

#26. Unlike people of my generation, my children and my grandchildren have grown up living with, knowing, people who were outwardly gay and lesbian. And they have learned that they're just like us ... And when you see that they're just like us, the rationale for discrimination melts away.

David Boies