Quotes About Equality

Even if you were green and had a beard and a male appendage between your legs. Even if your eyebrows were orange and you had a mole covering your entire cheek and a nose that poked me in the eye every time I kissed you. Even if you weighed seven hundred pounds and had hair the size of a Doberman under your arms. Even then, I would love you.

The idea that two is the ideal, and that one is only good as half of two. You are not a half, and you should never treat someone else like a half.

Even though you're not my type, gender wise, you're certainly my type, person-wise.

Part of the problem is words. The fact that there are separate words for HE and SHE, HIM and HER. I've never thought about it before, how divisive this is. Like maybe if there was just one pronoun for all of us, we wouldn't get so caught on that difference.

I had yet to learn that when it came to gender, I was both and neither.

We come to a corner where there are a few people protesting the festivities. I don't understand this at all. It's like protesting the fact that some people are red-haired. In my experience, desire is desire, love is love.

If he turns out to be gay, I will be furious. They get all the good ones!

When one of my teammates botches a shot, the coach tells him to stop being a girl. I wish I could tell him that I was a girl two days ago, and two days before that. Nothing is different. A shot is a shot.

well, LOVE and gay rights - three cheers for straight girls who max out on helping gay guys)

In my experience, desire is desire, love is love. I have never fallen in love with a gender. I have fallen for individuals. I know this is hard for people to do, but I don't understand why it's so hard, when it's so obvious.

Every time two boys kiss, it opens up the world a little bit more.

I hate that would. Straight. At the very least, those of us who are nonstraight should get to be called curvy. Or scenic. Actually, I like that: 'Do you think she's straight?' 'Oh no. She's scenic.

Every night I pray for a lovely, swoopy-haired homosexual to come to our school, in the same way that Margaret prayed for boobs and my grandfather prays for my eternal salvation.

Don't get trapped into thinking people are halves instead of wholes. TINY: People are halves? LYNDA: They're not trying to sell you on it yet, but believe me, they will. The idea that two is the ideal, and that one is only good as half of two. You are not a half, and you should never treat someone else like a half. Agreed?

You are here for the headstrong girl who will grow up to be president or something more important, like an English teacher

There is no such thing as equality for some. Equality must be for all. That is what freedom is. That is what liberty is. No human being is born more or less important than any other. How can we allow ourselves to forget that? What simpler truth is there?

Sostén. No quiero ser el fuerte, pero tampoco quiero ser el débil. ¿Por qué siempre da la impresión de que hay que ser uno u otro? Cuando nos abrazamos, siempre hay uno que aprieta con un poco más de fuerza.

Yes, girls want their princes, but boys want their princesses just as much.

Silence equals death, we'd say. And underneath that would be the assumption—the fear—that death equaled silence.

People are, in fact, born equal, no matter who they kiss or screw, no matter what dreams they have or love they give.

People like to say being gay isn't like skin color, isn't anything physical. They tell us we always have the option of hiding. But if that's true, why do they always find us?

To be loved by God is to be loved for who you are. To love God is to place no boundaries on who you love...Whether or not I believe in the God of my ancestors, I see God in everyone.

We come to a corner where there are a few people protesting the festivities. I don't understand this at all. It's like a protesting the fact that some people are red-haired. In my experience, desire is desire, love is love. I have never fallen in love with a gender. I have fallen for individuals. I know this is hard for people to do, but I don't understand why it's so hard, when it's so obvious.

Os gays de hoje, os gays de ontem, somos todos o mesmo incômodo, o mesmo pessoas. Não pessoas, na verdade. Só uma coisa sobre a qual gritar.