"Victory [over homophobia] may require five or maybe 20 years. Yet I have no doubt that "don't ask, don't tell" and same-sex adoption bans will be as unspeakable and inexplicable to my grandchildren as counting a slave as three-fifths of a human being."

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Source : "Reparations for Gay Americans". The Detroit Free Press, April 07, 2009.

Jacob M. Appel

#Sex Quotes #Grandchildren Quotes #Years Quotes

“The acme of freedom from wealth is to desire to be possessionless even as others desire to possess.”
“I'm flattered that women think that I'm sexy.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“We believe world peace is inevitable.”
“I am absolutely delighted to have come second. Who cares about winning when you can be second? I love being runner-up.”
“The surfing - the waves in Indonesia are amazing.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I know when a story is finished when there is not a single thing more I can think to do to it. And since I know at the start what the last line will be, I know when I've reached that point as logically as I can that it's finished. As for the rewriting-it's not foolproof, of course, but if you're honest about having thought of every possibility and you still come back to what you have, what more can you do?”
“Your emptiness is but the preparation for your being filled, and your casting down is but the making ready for your lifting up.”
“The first modern propaganda agency was the British Ministry of Information a century ago, which secretly defined its task as to direct the thought of most of the world - primarily progressive American intellectuals, who had to be mobilized to come to the aid of Britain during World War I.”

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