Quotes About Gay Rights Movement

#1. The gay rights movement is not a party. It is not a lifestyle. It is not a hair style. It is not a fad or a fringe or a sickness. It is not about sin or salvation. The gay rights movement is an integral part of the American promise of freedom.

Urvashi Vaid

#2. There is a fantasy as old as the modern gay rights movement that if all our skins turned lavender overnight, the majority, confounded by our numbers and our diversity, and recognising a few of our faces, would at once let go of prejudice forevermore.

Ian McKellen

#3. I've been a very effective leader in the gay rights movement, though at times I've been controversial.

Jean O'Leary

#4. One thing the gay rights movement taught the world is the importance of being visible.

Charles M. Blow

#5. Luckily you cannot get to the Golden Triangle in a bus. You can only access it on your own two feet!

Arthur Frommer

#6. I'll kill him though,' he said. 'In all his greatness and his glory.

Ernest Hemingway,

#7. We have the history of slavery or inequality to women, and now the civil rights movement of the 21st century is the struggle for equality for the gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender people. And I think it's important for Americans to know about the times that we failed.

George Takei

#8. Mom says you have to believe in Santa if you want presents on Christmas.

C.K. Walker

#9. The successes of the LGBT civil rights movement and the more prominent role openly gay people are playing in the public eye has actually turned up the temperature in middle schools and high schools for queer kids.

Dan Savage

#10. Activism is setting a goal of something you would like to be different, and figuring out what would have to change to achieve that goal. It's sort of like math.

Rachel Maddow

#11. MRS ALLONBY You have your looking-glass
LORD ILLINGWORTH It is unkind. I merely shows me my wrinkles.
MRS ALLONBY Mine is better behaved. It never tells me the truth.
LORD ILLINGWORTH Then it is in love with you.

Oscar Wilde

#12. No, there is no real Left now. If you are just counting heads, there are probably more people involved than in the 1960s, but they are atomized, committed to different special interests - gay rights, environmental rights, this, that. They don't coalesce into a movement that can really do things.

Noam Chomsky

#13. Living is not enough; we must live an illuminated life.

Debasish Mridha

#14. My parents have always told me to work hard. My father was a friend, a very good friend, but when he needed to be a father, he was.

Jeev Milkha Singh

#15. I'm a dweller of the threshold and I'm waiting at the door, and I'm standing in the darkness, I don't want to wait no more.

Van Morrison

#16. The Stonewall riot may have been the start of a civil rights movement, but it was not the beginning of our history.

Tom Cardamone

#17. I think I went into poli-sci because I knew there was a stage, plus I thought I wanted to help people, and I realized in poli-sci that if you want to be a politician you're either born into it, or you've got an amazing brain, which those are rare - and I don't have one.

David Koechner

#18. Ah," cried Gavroche, "what does this mean? It rains again! ... If this continues, I withdraw my subscription.

Victor Hugo

#19. So here we are, talking about Roman unicycles and alien sandwiches and my sister's Italian misfortunes, while hanging in between us is: MY EPIC FAILURE TO CARPE. What's wrong with me?

Laini Taylor

#20. Very seldom do we receive any support for trusting ourselves, listening to our own sense of inner truth, and expressing ourselves in a direct and honest way.

Shakti Gawain

#21. Vivienne Westwood really inspires me. I love her punk ethos.

Charli XCX

#22. You talk about the Pro-Life movement being one of the great shames of our nation. I think, if you want number two, I think - I think it's that. I think it's absolute - it's a travesty that people have forced someone who is gay to make their case that they deserve the same basic rights.

Jon Stewart

#23. Features alone do not run in the blood; vices and virtues, genius and folly, are transmitted through the same sure but unseen channel.

William Hazlitt

#24. I'd like to play the voice of the Iron in the Monopoly movie.

Nick Frost