Quotes About Fighting For Gay Rights

#1. Finally, fighting for gay rights, speaking out in various places and making friends, men and women, was great.

George Weinberg

#2. Yeah, I know I should be fighting for gay rights, but who wants to join the army or get married anyway?

John Waters

#3. No one can control the aging process or the trajectory of illness.

Gail Sheehy

#4. I don't mind being distracted.

Ruth Rendell

#5. Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.

Thomas Hobbes

#6. Can there be any happiness greater than the happiness of salvation?

Yann Martel

#7. The world commands our desire for purity but bids that we not be too precise about it.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#8. We are sinners. But we should not take the failure to live up to this high moral standard as an authoritative objection to the truth. We should try to do as much good as we can and to support and put up with each other.

Pope Benedict XVI

#9. A conversation in which the two parties have different beliefs should never begin with the intention of converting the other party to your own beliefs. Every worthwhile conversation's goal should be to understand the other person's opinions and help them understand your own.

Emily Eskowich

#10. In the first two years this is a man [Clinton] who tried his best to balance the budget, to reform health care, to fight for gay rights, to support personal freedoms. Couldn't those be considered doing the right things, evidence of true character?

Bryant Gumbel

#11. I certainly think the free-market has failed.

Hillary Clinton

#12. No one who has had "Taps" played for them has ever been able to hear it.

George Carlin

#13. The Australian form of self-respect, however rough-and-ready, heart-of-gold, come-and-take-pot-luck-with-us, and matily extrovert it is, essentially, genteel, ingrowing, self-pitying, vanilla-ice-cream hearted, its central fear a fear of intellect.

Hal Porter

#14. During this Christmas season, when the world seems to be in turmoil, wars are breaking out in different places, crime is rampant, and many things are happening that are great sins in the sight of God. But in that crib is the person who grew up to save us. And He did.

Billy Graham

#15. After Arthur sent me away for my own good, it' like my life switched from color to black and white--like the ending of The Wizard of Oz.

Nick Nolan

#16. Think of yourselves as a hand. Each of you is a finger, and without the others you're useless. Alone, a finger can't grasp, or control, or form a fist. You are nothing on your own, and everything together.

Karen Traviss

#17. Bet I can blow a hole in your chest before you can crush my leg."
"You wouldn't dare."
"Why not?" I asked.
A touch of fear flowed through his eyes. "I am the human servant of a council member."
"Not impressed," I said. "Try door number two.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#18. Please, Ally. Just stay," I whisper urgently, kissing the shell of her ear. "Stay, or tell me you don't want this. That I'm a fool for wanting you like I do.

S.L. Jennings

#19. She looks like a very young old person, or a very old young person; but then, she's looked that way ever since she was two.

Margaret Atwood