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“I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade-or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men, but wish we had more of it everywhere.”

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Belva Ann Lockwood

Belva Ann Lockwood, born on October 24, 1830, and died on May 19, 1917, was an American attorney. She is known as the first woman to be admitted to the bar in the United States and the first woman to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court. more

“Ever since the Evil Empire turned out to be a collection of third-world countries, Americans aligned on the far right have tried to cast gay men and lesbians as the new enemy, calculating deviants seducing the nation's young, anti-Avon ladies selling sodomy door-to-door. This simply won't wash. Just as seeing the Russians up close and personal on television humanized them, so seeing the lesbian grandmother of two little girls wearing her gold medal with pride makes the notion of otherness, much less deviance, silly and ignorant.”

“When I say my brother and his wife are heterosexual, that doesn't mean I'm talking about their sex lives. Likewise, when we say someone is gay, we're talking about sexual orientation, not their sexual activity.”

Mean Sex Justice Talking Wife Brother Gay Activity Social Justice My Brother Orientation

Author:Vito Russo

“Sex prejudice is so ingrained in our society that many who practice it are simply unaware that they are hurting. It is the last socially acceptable prejudice.”

Lasts Sex Hurt Justice Practice Prejudice Social Justice Our Society Acceptable

Author:Bernice Sandler

“It still may take some explaining, but many more women are keeping their birth names (and not calling them maiden names, with all the sexual double standards that implies).”

May Stills Names Justice Birth Calling Standards Social Justice Explaining Maidens Double Standard Maiden Names

Book:Passion, Politics, and Everyday Activism: Collected Essays: Moving Beyond Words; Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions; and Revolution from Within

Source: Passion, Politics, and Everyday Activism: Collected Essays: Moving Beyond Words; Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions; and Revolution from Within

“The historian's distortion is more than technical, it is ideological; it is released into a world of contending interest, where any chosen emphasis supports some kind of interest, whether economic or political or racial, or national or sexual.”

World Kind Political Interest Justice Support Economic Social Justice Chosen Historian Emphasis Ideological Distortion Contending

Book:A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present

Source: A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present

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