"If we [gays] want to be equal under the law, we must now - as the great heroes of the Civil Rights movement of 1963 and 1964 showed us - turn our attention to the federal government."

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Source : Source: www.bilerico.com

Cleve Jones

#Hero Quotes #Gay Quotes #Law Quotes

“You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life.”
“Revolt is my new - cable music network. It's distributed through Time Warner and Comcast. And to put it simply, it is the ESPN of music.”
“As The O.C. started up again, I started to feel myself potentially getting pulled away.”
“The U.S. military today garrisons the planet in a fashion without historical precedent. Successive administrations, regardless of party, justify and perpetuate this policy by insisting that positioning U.S. forces in distant lands fosters peace, stability, and security. In the present century, however, perpetuating this practice has visibly had the opposite effect. In the eyes of many of those called upon to "host" American bases, the permanent presence of such forces smacks of occupation. They resist. Why should U.S. policymakers expect otherwise?”

Source : "Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, What Obsessing About You-Know-Who Causes Us To Miss". www.tomdispatch.com. May 7, 2017.
“Jewish men don't know anything.”
“It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there's nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.”
“I'm pretty illiterate when it comes to comics history.”
“It's not about having it all. It's about having what you value most.”

Source : Jean Chatzky (2012). “Money Rules: The Simple Path to Lifelong Security”, p.61, Rodale

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