“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.”
Source: Stonewall: Breaking Out in the Fight for Gay Rights
“For if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well.”
“We are following the blacks ... And we will follow, entering, perhaps, the same time as women.”
Source: Stonewall: Breaking Out in the Fight for Gay Rights
“Paradoxically, America appears to many gays not as an imperialist nation, but since Stonewall as a symbol of their liberation.”
Source: Global Gay: How Gay Culture Is Changing the World
“They have been brainwashed by this fucked up system that has condemened us and by doctors that call us a disease and a bunch
of freaks. Our family and friends have also condemned us because of their lack
of true knowledge.”
Source: Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR): Survival, Revolt, and Queer Antagonist Struggle
“You say that you love your children above everything else. And yet you are stealing their future.”
Source: No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
“You lied to us. You gave us false hope. You told us that the future was something to look forward to. And the saddest thing is that most children are not even aware of the fate that awaits us. We will not understand it until it’s too late. And yet we are the lucky ones. Those who will be affected the hardest are already suffering the consequences. But their voices are not heard.
Is my microphone on? Can you hear me?”
Source: No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
“The real power belongs to the people.”
Source: No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
“We live in a strange world, where we think we can buy or build our way out of a crisis that has been created by buying and building things.
Where a football game or a film gala gets more media attention than the biggest crisis humanity has ever faced.
Where celebrities, film and pop stars who have stood up against all injustices will not stand up for our environment and for climate justice because that would inflict on their right to fly around the world visiting their favourite restaurants, beaches and yoga retreats.”
Source: No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
“...But it is the sufferings of the many which pay for the luxuries of a few.”
Source: No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference