Bigotry and judgment are the height of insecurity.

Young people discovering their sexuality must know they walk with a strong tradition and that they are not alone. They have a right to information without being pressured.

The building of friendship, family, community and love is complicated. We are so isolated in this country, no longer supported by tribes and villages.

An activist is one who is actively involved in creating community, whether that is locally in their neighborhood or internationally. It is an admirable quality.

People in power need to control others in order to maintain power. One of the ways to do that is to take that which is threatening and demonize it.

The kitchen may not get cleaned, and I have to accept that. I do the important things.

I don't much care who is gay or straight or married or not. I mostly notice if they are brave enough to confront bigotry.

There are brilliant out lesbians and gay men and bisexuals and transgendered people and heterosexuals keeping the fire of change alive. Not a day goes by when I don't feel grateful to them for their work.

That made me feel good, not to go to a resort where outside the door is extreme poverty.

Life is way better than TV. I recommend it to anyone who has forgotten they have one.

I have often felt bad that I am not great at any one thing. Like just a super super singer. Or the Gregory Hines of something.

I am very sad for men and women trapped in any relationship where there is cruelty, dominance, inequity. I long for the liberation of all people.

One disco, one soft ball game, one lost love, one gay pride rally at a time.

There is no sexuality that is greater or lesser than another.

I meet so many people, but I don't know anybody.

The state and the church seldom approve of anything I do. I don't need their approval. I don't aspire to the heterosexual nuclear family model.

I believe people who practice their beliefs in daily life are activists.

I want word of mouth to be our biggest voice.

You tend to be afraid when someone seems foreign to you. But if you aren't careful, that can lead to bigotry.

It is a full time job being honest one moment at a time, remembering to love, to honor, to respect. It is a practice, a discipline, worthy of every moment.

As the middle begins to feel safe enough to accept some of the so-called radical thinking, ideas move to the middle and a new edge is created.

The more confident one becomes, the less one needs all people to be the same.

Bigotry and judgment are the height of insecurity.

We gave up having a TV last year. I am out of the loop. Life is way better than TV. I recommend it to anyone who has forgotten they have one.

It seems to me the most important issue in the LGBT community is the right to be queer-the right to be free of the heterosexual assumption.

If one is desperate for love, I suggest looking at one's friends and family and see if love is all around. If not, get a new set of friends, a new family.

I am going to sing lesbian love songs and support gay rights no matter what. The rest is public relations.

We are a complex species to observe.

Anything that is non-violent is OK with me.

If black people mistrust white people, they are mistrusting racism, and that is appropriate.

As for the Pope, I am too old to be frightened by his shadow, and am quite sure his shadow or Substance will do less harm to the liberties of my country than will a party, who seek to acquire political power by exciting religious bigotry in the minds of their duped followers.

I don't much care who is gay or straight or married or not. I mostly notice if they are brave enough to confront bigotry.

There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry toward religious beliefs... begins.

Your political system is actually too democratic. The fact that Americans vote on every bill and proposition can prolong bigotry indefinitely, especially where it is aimed at minority groups.

Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.

The rising sun can dispel the darkness of night, but it cannot banish the blackness of malice, hatred, bigotry, and selfishness from the hearts of humanity.

Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.

I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.

Too small is our world to allow discrimination, bigotry and intolerance to thrive in any corner of it, let alone in the United States of America.

There is no bigotry like that of "free thought" run to seed.

We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling against the kind of mob of the town, so you remember how you felt as a kid being taken seriously, that you are part of the human drama.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood.

You tend to be afraid when someone seems foreign to you. But if you aren't careful, that can lead to bigotry.

It was under a solemn consciousness of the dangers from ecclesiastical ambition, the bigotry of spiritual pride, and the intolerance of sects... that is was deemed advisable to exclude from the national government all power to act upon the subject.

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.

Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.

I'm surprised at the extent of the bigotry. But it really plays out when companies or schools take a side and prohibit the other platform at all. We Mac users should be good even when the other side is bad. We should do what we can to accept the other platforms.

Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue.