“It is up to us to take care of this planet, it is our only home. To betray nature is to betray us. To save nature is to save us. Because whatever you're fighting for, racism or poverty. Feminism, gay rights or any type of equality. It won't matter in the least. Because if we don't all work together to save the environment, we will be equally extinct.” IfsHeartSoulMatterHomeCareTogetherFightingRealizingPovertyEnvironmentRightsFeminismPlanetsTypeGayRacismClimateWarmTake CareWorking TogetherBetrayGay RightsSave The EnvironmentSave Nature Author:Prince Ea
“Most pastors railing against gay marriage have never cried out on racism, any type of injustice or police brutality. They've never once made a statement about health care. Many of them are silent on community issues. They are very silent, but they have become the leaders of this particular movement.” MadeCareCommunityLeaderIssuesMovementParticularTypeGayRacismPoliceSilentInjusticeStatementsHealth CareCriedPastorGay MarriagePolice BrutalityBrutalityAgainst Gay Marriage Author:Otis Moss III
“Hip-hop is contributing to American society's misogyny and racism, hyper-sexuality anti-Black representations. Hip-Hop isn't setting the standard for misogyny. No one reduces the presidency to misogyny, although we've had misogynistic presidents. No one reduces our government to being solely homophobic, although we have a government with a don't ask, don't tell policy for gays and lesbians in the military.” GovernmentAsksBlackPresidentMilitaryPolicyGayRacismStandardsHip HopSexualitySettingSettingsHipsHopsRepresentationMisogynyPresidencyContributingHyperAmerican SocietyHomophobic Author:Bakari Kitwana
“As someone who was gay bashed as a kid, I learned firsthand how a lot of people only feel good about themselves when they sense that someone or something is on a lower rung than they are. This inferiority complex drives racism and sexism as well as outdated attitudes about animals.” PeopleFeelsWellsKidsAnimalAttitudeGayRacismComplexesFeel GoodSexismInferiorityOutdatedInferiority Complex Author:Dan Mathews
“I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.” FeelingsLightRememberYoungLiteratureFeltBlackHellKeysFineGayRacismLonelyBeing Lonely Author:Audre Lorde
“It was behaviour that I thought not far from racism, sexism or any other kind of prejudice or snobbery. 'Because you are not cute, I do not want to know you' was, to me, hardly different from suggesting 'because you are gay, I dislike you” KnowsWantKindDifferentGayRacismPrejudiceCuteSexismDislikeBehaviourSuggestingSnobbery Book:The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography Source: The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography
“Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things - he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies.” PeopleThinkingShouldSaidJesusDemocracyTeachingFineGayMarriedRacismDiscriminationMultipleHomosexualityCeremonyGay MarriageBeing MarriedGay People Author:Jimmy Carter
“We must make it clear that a platform of 'I hate gay men and women' is not a way to become president of the United States.” MenWayStatesAmericaHatePoliticsPresidentUnitedUnited StatesHellDemocracyClearGayRacismMen And WomenI HateDiscriminationPlatformsGay MarriageGay Men Author:Jimmy Carter
“Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate men. Lesbians and gay men are expected to educate the heterosexual world. The oppressors maintain their position and evade their responsibility for their own actions. There is a constant drain of energy which might be better used in redefining ourselves and devising realistic scenarios for altering the present and constructing the future.” PeopleMenWorldMightActionUsedHumanityEnergyWomenBlackWhiteResponsibilityPositionGayRacismThirdsConstantExpectedRealisticEducateScenariosDrainsOppressorsThird WorldGay MenRedefiningDevising Book:Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
“The pursuit of otherness, the sense that we are somehow different than our brothers and sisters, no matter where we find them, allows for all the other great evils: racism, sexism, homophobia, violence against gay people and against women.” PeopleDifferentMatterEvilJusticeViolenceBrotherGayRacismSocial JusticePursuitSexismBrothers And SistersHomophobiaGay PeopleOtherness Author:Anna Quindlen