Top 70 Stonewall Quotes
#1. They stuff people's heads down the toilet the first day at Stonewall," he told Harry. "Want to come upstairs and practice?" "No, thanks," said Harry. "The poor toilet's never had anything as horrible as your head down it - it might be sick." Then
J.K. Rowling
#2. I guess not everyone gets their Stonewall.
Rodney Ross
#3. Stonewall" has come to mark the origins of gay political activism although earlier groups in countries such as Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the French movement that grew out of the May 1968 events cannot be ignored.
Chantal Zabus
#4. You say you want to talk, But you don't . You stonewall me.
Zadie Smith
#5. The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a mental illness or maybe a sin or a crime. Gay liberation allowed us to make the leap to being a 'minority group,' which made life much easier.
Edmund White
#6. All the historians are Harvard people. It just isn't fair. Poor old Hoover from West Branch, Iowa, had no chance with that crowd;nor did Andrew Jackson from Tennessee. Nor does Lyndon Johnson from Stonewall, Texas. It just isn't fair.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#7. A totally honest organization would never hide or disguise actions or stonewall.
Brian Martin
#8. I didn't know of any homophile movements pre-Stonewall.
Sean Maher
#9. The spirit that emerged outside a Mafia-run bar in 1969 became the pulse of the gay community and inspired not just an annual parade but ways to express gay pride in individual lives.
Stonewall happens every day.
Ann Bausum
#10. I'm a detective, but nuns could stonewall Sam Spade into an asylum
Dennis Lehane
#11. When you hear in the tape recordings Nixon's own voice saying, We have to stonewall, We have to lie to the Grand Jury, We have to pay burglars a million dollars, it's all too clear the horror of what went on.
Bob Woodward
#12. People are beginning to realise," the doorman of the Stonewall Inn observed a few days after the riot, "that no matter how 'nelly' or how 'fem' a homosexual is, you can only push them so far.
Ann Bausum
#13. During a mock battle attended by President Warren Harding in 1921, Marine Corps General Smedley D. Butler exhumed the arm [of Stonewall Jackson; he didn't believe it was buried there] and reburied it in a metal box.
Tony Horwitz
#14. The Stonewall riot may have been the start of a civil rights movement, but it was not the beginning of our history.
Tom Cardamone
#15. I was a radical, a revolutionist. I am still a revolutionist ... I am glad I was in the Stonewall riot. I remember when someone threw a Molotov cocktail, I thought, My god, the revolution is here. The revolution is finally here!
Sylvia Rivera
#16. Many rebel soldiers that night would sleep on their muskets and question the value of a victory that had cost them Stonewall Jackson.
John C. Waugh
#17. Or maybe his reclusiveness was a decisive marketing strategy-if you disappear, people are more interested in your work. You become a legend while you're still alive. Crouching behind a stonewall, or the post under a house ... people are kneeling down to find you.
Naomi Shihab Nye
#18. I'm stoic like a statue of Stonewall Jackson. I'd make a great U.S. President, but I'd make an even better chiseled piece of marble - and that's what makes me such an amazing lover.
Jarod Kintz
#19. deal with self-righteous prosecutors who lie, cheat, stonewall, cover up, ignore ethics, and do whatever it takes to get a conviction, even when they know the truth and the truth tells them they are wrong.
John Grisham
#20. Sing a song of Tar Ponds City, party full of lies! Four and twenty liars, seventeen hands caught in pies! When the pie was cut, Hugh Briss began to sing! Wasn't that a stonewall rat to set before the Fossil's ding?
Beatrice Rose Roberts
#23. My religious beliefs teach me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed the time of my death. I do not concern myself with that, but to be always ready whenever it may overtake me. That is the way all men should live, and all men would be equally brave.
Stonewall Jackson
#26. My men have sometimes failed to take a position, but to defend one, never!
Stonewall Jackson
#29. We are following the blacks ... And we will follow, entering, perhaps, the same time as women.
Ann Bausum
#30. I like liquor - its taste and its effects - and that is just the reason why I never drink it.
Stonewall Jackson
#31. The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth.
Stonewall Jackson
#32. Men danced with men, often for the first time in their lives.
Ann Bausum
#33. This army stays here until the last wounded man is removed. Before I leave them to the enemy, I will lose many more men.
Stonewall Jackson
#34. Arms is a profession that, if its principles are adhered to for success, requires an officer do what he fears may be wrong, and yet, according to military experience, must be done, if success is to be attained.
Stonewall Jackson
#35. Sir! Men who desert their comrades in war deserve to be shot! And Officers who intrude for them deserve to be hung!
Stonewall Jackson
#36. If officers desire to have control over their commands, they must remain habitually with them, industriously attend to their instruction and comfort, and in battle lead them well.
Stonewall Jackson
#37. There are but few commanders who properly appreciate the value of celerity.
Stonewall Jackson
#38. Through life let your principal object be the discharge of duty.
Stonewall Jackson
#39. The hardships of forced marches are often more painful than the dangers of battle
Stonewall Jackson
#41. Our God was my shield. His protecting care is an additional cause for gratitude.
Stonewall Jackson
#43. Few bars in New York, even gay bars, permitted same-sex dancing.
Ann Bausum
#44. He is cautious. He ought to be. But he is NOT slow. Lee is a phenomenon. He is the only man whom I would follow blindfolded.
Stonewall Jackson
#45. You know, the guys there were so beautiful - they've lost that wounded look that fags all had 10 years ago.
Allen Ginsberg
#48. I am more anxious than I can express that my men should be not only good soldiers of their country, but also good soldiers of the cross.
Stonewall Jackson
#51. I am more afraid of alcohol than of all the bullets of the enemy.
Stonewall Jackson
#53. Died of wounds inflicted in error by his own troops at the battle of Chancellorsville during the US Civil War. Let us cross over the river and sit in the shade of the trees.
Stonewall Jackson
#54. Once you get them running, you stay right on top of them, and that way a small force can defeat a large one every time ... Only thus can a weaker country cope with a stronger; it must make up in activity what it lacks in strength.
Stonewall Jackson
#56. [M]y religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed the time for my death. I do not concern myself about that, but to be always ready, no matter when it may overtake me. That is the way all men should live, and then all would be equally brave.
Stonewall Jackson
#57. Madam, if your son were to come home and try to shirk duty, you ought to shut your door in his face and treat him as a renegade unworthy of your name or regard.
Stonewall Jackson
#58. Shoot the brave officers, and the cowards will run away and take the men with them.
Stonewall Jackson
#59. When Clinton took office, members of that community still faced a host of legal and cultural barriers. Sodomy laws banned same-sex acts, even in the privacy of one's bedroom, in more than half of the country's states plus the nation's capital.
Ann Bausum
#60. It is painful enough to discover with what unconcern they speak of war and threaten it. I have seen enough of it to make me look upon it as the sum of all evils.
Stonewall Jackson
#61. The only true rule for cavalry is to follow the enemy as long as he retreats.
Stonewall Jackson
#62. My troops may fail to take a position, but are never driven from one!
Stonewall Jackson
#63. People who are anxious to bring on war don't know what they are bargaining for; they don't see all the horrors that must accompany such an event.
Stonewall Jackson
#65. Don't say it's impossible! Turn your command over to the next officer. If he can't do it, I'll find someone who can, even if I have to take him from the ranks!
Stonewall Jackson
#66. Masquerading in the attire of the opposite sex was a criminal offense, except on Halloween.
Ann Bausum
#67. I was afraid the fire would not be hot enough for me to distinguish myself.
Stonewall Jackson
#68. Under divine blessing, we must rely on the bayonet when firearms cannot be furnished
Stonewall Jackson
#69. I yield to no man in sympathy for the gallant men under my command; but I am obliged to sweat them tonight, so that I may save their blood tomorrow.
Stonewall Jackson
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