Urvashi Vaid Quotes
The LGBT movement has been coopted by the very institutions it once sought to transform.
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I have become a prisoner of the peace movement. But you can't say that the termination is coming and then say that you are going back to your own garden to dig.
E. P. Thompson
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As far as I am concerned, LGBT can only stand for leprosy, gonorrhea, bacteria, and tuberculosis, all of which are detrimental to human existence.
Yahya Jammeh
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My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement.
Kamala Harris
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In general, if signs of sectarianism do appear in a Socialist Party, these are only the products of the absence of a broad Labour movement in the country.
Karl Radek
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Even a polemic has some justification if one considers that my own first poetic experiments began during a dictatorship and mark the origin of the Hermetic movement.
Salvatore Quasimodo
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I was in college in the '60s, and the whole feminist movement had swept me up.
Laura Schlessinger
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Legitimate institutions historically have been defenseless in the face of outright fraud.
Gary Weiss
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The women's movement ruined a permanent vacation.
Natasha Leggero
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In conversion you are not attached primarily to an order, nor to an institution, nor a movement, nor a set of beliefs, nor a code of action - you are attached primarily to a Person, and secondarily to these other things.
E. Stanley Jones
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I have come to understand that in order to effectively advance women's rights, we need to galvanize a global women's movement.
Zainab Salbi
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The black community is my community - the LGBT community, too, and the female community. That is my community. That's me; it's who I am.
Nate Parker
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To me, steampunk and urban fantasy are naturally hinged together. And I think that's because I love the early gothic Victorian literature, and both things spring from that movement.
Gail Carriger
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I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.
Fidel Castro
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If a Labour movement, on a bourgeois basis, has hitherto existed in the country where the new movement is awakening it will certainly not disappear all at once.
Karl Radek
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I think it's foolish to interview someone who's just promoting a movie that they're in and ask if they consider themselves a feminist. That's not about feminism; that's about the journalist wanting to gauge how much this person is aware of the world or is aware of the feminist movement.
Tavi Gevinson
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Simply because something is a populist movement doesn't make it either good or bad.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I can't even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.
Ira Glass
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That's what he was saying, the civil rights movement - judge me for my character, not how black my skin is, not how yellow my skin is, how short I am, how tall or fat or thin; It's by my character.
Pam Grier
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O Oysters,' said the Carpenter, You've had a pleasant run! Shall we be trotting home again?' But answer came there none - And this was scarcely odd, because They'd eaten every one.
Lewis Carroll
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In the beginning, there was house. In the end, there was house, and in the middle, there is Axwell.
Axwell Swedish House Mafia
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I have some unfinished business to complete at the University of Oregon.
Chip Kelly
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A large part of the present anxiety to improve the education of girls and women is also due to the conviction that the political disabilities of women will not be maintained.
Millicent Fawcett
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Diversity of opinion within the framework of loyalty to our free society is not only basic to a university but to the entire nation.
James Bryant Conant
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The LGBT movement has been coopted by the very institutions it once sought to transform.
Urvashi Vaid