Quotes About Lesbian Rights

#1. Given the National Organization for Women's membership and proclivities, it's no wonder that people now view the NOW gang as being obsessed with only two issues: abortion rights and lesbian rights.

Rush Limbaugh

#2. My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a chance to clarify my own feelings about gay and lesbian civil rights.

Bruce Springsteen

#3. I am going to sing lesbian love songs and support gay rights no matter what. The rest is public relations.

Jasmine Guy

#4. It is at least a small comfort to me, as a gay rights and marriage equality advocate, to know that like any marriage, gay and lesbian couples are subject to the same complications and hardships that afflict marriages between heterosexual couples,

Gene Robinson

#5. When I kissed a girl, nobody was around. So I didn't do it for anybody. I'm not a lesbian. I encourage anybody to try anything, just make sure you have integrity and character. It doesn't matter who anyone loves. I am for gay rights and I also have a boyfriend.

Katy Perry

#6. What friends or kindred can be so close and intimate as the powers of our soul, which, whether we will or no, must ever bear us company?

Saint Teresa Of Avila

#7. Maybe poetry's not so important, but ... it makes life worth living.

Arda Collins

#8. I'd underestimated him. I assumed anyone who started out gut-punching you in an elevator couldn't have all that much else in his arsenal. For instance, I had no idea he could smile, let alone at such an inappropriate time.

Jonathan Lethem

#9. Being lesbian isn't a way of life, it's a trivial attribute that doesn't change your character.

Lisa Wheeler

#10. I oppose same-sex marriage and civil unions but I support domestic partnership between gay and lesbian couples. I have no problem with gay and lesbian couples adopting. I support equal benefits for same-sex couples such as hospital visitation rights

Mitt Romney

#11. The barometer for judging the character of people, in regard human rights, is now those who consider themselves gay, homosexual, lesbian. The judgment as to whether you can trust the future, the social advancement - depending on people - will be judged on where they come out on that question.

Bayard Rustin

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

Cassandra Duffy

#13. Legions of grotesques sweep under his hand; for has not nature too her grotesques - the rent rock, the distorting lights of evening on lonely roads, the unveiled structure of man in the embryo, or the skeleton?

Walter Pater

#14. I oppose same-sex marriage but I would advance equal rights in employment for gay and lesbian people. I appointed a few judges who were gay and I had few people in my cabinet that I found out were gay. I never asked peoples sexual orientation.

Mitt Romney

#15. If I was courting the Muslim vote, I wouldn't have put establishing the partnership ceremony at the forefront of my first term, would I? I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.

Ken Livingstone

#16. I am trying like Klee, to create something that will have a life of its own, that can put me in real danger, a danger which I willingly take on myself.

William S. Burroughs

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

DaShanne Stokes

#18. It is unconstitutional to deny people, gay or lesbian couples, the right to marriage. Everyone has equal rights so this is the right way to go. I think it's a great celebration for America.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#19. A firm is successful when the costs of directing employee effort are lower than the potential gain from directing.

Clay Shirky

#20. History, like memories themselves, tended to become distorted with the passing of time, or worse, corrupted with the agendas of those writing it.

Terry Goodkind

#21. She thought of people she had seen holding hands in movies, and why shouldn't she and Carol?

Patricia Highsmith

#22. Before you echo 'Amen' in your home or place of worship, think and remember ... a child is listening.

Mary Griffith

#23. To me, celebrity doesn't mean a whole lot unless you're willing to use it. So I wanted to use it in a different way, with my AIDS work, the human rights stuff for the gay and lesbian community and the speaking I do.

Judith Light

#24. [Button] If Gay and Lesbian people are given civil rights, soon everyone will want them

James Howe

#25. I wanted to represent minorities in the respect of people who had been bullied in school or people who were gay or lesbian or trans or people who aren't blonde haired and blue-eyed. I have short hair, and I am covered in tattoos. I like showing people that it's within their rights to be different.

Ruby Rose

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

Cassandra Duffy

#27. Lesbian and gay people are a permanent part of the American workforce, who currently have no protection from the arbitrary abuse of their rights on the job.

Coretta Scott King

#28. You must lay aside your greed; have no unworthy motive in your desire to become rich and powerful. It is legitimate and right to desire riches, if you want them for the sake of your soul, but not if you desire them for the lists of the flesh.

Wallace D. Wattles

#29. Is the Jewish race thriftier than the Arab race?

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#30. Sure, I could tell you I am no longer a lesbian or that I am no longer attracted to women and am straight, or I could even tell you the moon is made of cheese. I could tell you many things, but the moon will still not be made of cheese, and I will still not be attracted to men.

Cristina Marrero

#31. The bad news is nothing lasts forever,
The good news is nothing lasts forever.

J. Cole

#32. 12 But Moses' hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.

Anonymous

#33. Rocks, like louseworts and snail darters and pupfish and 3rd-world black, lesbian, militant poets, have rights, too. Especially the right to exist.

Edward Abbey

#34. There's a good chance that if you're talking to me when I'm snoring, it means I'm bored.

Garry Shandling

#35. It is astonishing that gay and lesbian Americans are still treated as second-class citizens. I am confident that, very soon, the laws of this nation will reflect the basic truth that gay and lesbian people - like all human beings - are born equal in dignity and rights.

George Clooney

#36. Twenty-five, 30 years ago, the barometer of human rights in the United States were black people. That is no longer true. The barometer for judging the character of people in regard to human rights is now those who consider themselves gay, homosexual, lesbian.

Bayard Rustin

#37. Trans rights formation that mimics the models and strategies of the lesbian and gay rights framework is growing, and there are many significant strategy disagreements between those building that work and those doing racial and economic justice centered trans work.

Dean Spade