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It's a good thing that columnists don't make homosexuality their last taboo anymore. But I wish the columnists themselves would come out too.

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• The Jews have never been ashamed of being Jews, whereas homosexuals have been stupid enough to be ashamed of their homosexuality.

  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Stupid
  • Jews
  • Homosexuality

• I lived through the Fifties in the Midwest when everything that was happening - the repression of homosexuality, for instance, the demonization of the Left, the giggly, soporific ordinariness of adolescence, the stone-deafness to the social injustice all around us - seemed not only unobjectionable but also nonexistent.

  

  Edmund White
  • Injustice
  • Homosexuality

• Martin Luther King, with whom I worked very closely, became very distressed when a number of the ministers working for him wanted him to dismiss me from his staff because of my homosexuality.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • Worked
  • Ministers
  • Homosexuality

• Neither. I did not bring my crown, and the last thing I would want to do is get into politics.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Want
  • Lasts
  • Crowns

• Sometimes, especially in the last six months, I still feel like going to the window and singing out all my troubles.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Sometimes
  • Singing
  • Feels

• A lot of the Beatles albums were very various, and we did it on purpose: We didn't want the next track to sound like the last one.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Purpose
  • Lasts
  • Track

• Don't you hate it when...your suitcase is the last one off the airplane?

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Hate
  • Travel
  • Lasts

• The heterosexuality or homosexuality of many individuals is not an all-or-none proposition.

  

  Alfred Kinsey
  • Homosexuality
  • Proposition
  • Heterosexuality

• The church is the last place we want to be sold another product, the last place we want to be entertained.

  

  Rachel Grace Held
  • Want
  • Church
  • Lasts

• When I've sent young men and women into harm's way, I always understand that that is the last resort, not the first resort.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Men
  • Women
  • Way

• My particular worries on any given day - how I'm doing in the polls or what somebody is saying about me... for good or for ill - isn't particularly relevant. What is relevant is: What am I building that lasts?

  

  Barack Obama
  • Good
  • Worry
  • Building

• I'm only in competition with my last level. It don't have nothing to do with music or anything. And the last level is hard competition, the last place you were.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Music
  • Competition
  • Hard

• The last person to be beatified by Pope John Paul II was Mother Teresa of Calcutta in 2003.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Mother
  • Persons
  • Lasts

• In the scientific world I find just that disinterested devotion to great ends that I hope will spread at last through the entire range of human activity.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • World
  • Great
  • Hope

• It's come at last", she thought, "the time when you can no longer stand between your children and heartache.

  

  Betty Smith
  • Time
  • Children
  • She

• We both know, you and I, that if all men were gardeners, the world at last would be at peace.

  

  Beverley Nichols
  • World
  • Men
  • Peace

• The only people are those who don't love anybody.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • People
  • Gay
  • Homosexuality

• Tolerance is the last virtue of a depraved society. When you have an immoral society that has blatantly, proudly, violated all of the commandments of God, there is one last virtue they insist upon: tolerance for their immorality.

  

  D. James Kennedy
  • God
  • Society
  • Dying

• It's freaking football. There are going to be big hits. I don't understand how they can do this after one weekend of hitting. And I can't understand how they can suspend us for it. I think it's a bunch of bull.

  

  Brian Urlacher
  • Football
  • Hits

• Every single person, pretty much, is taught what they're supposed to do: go to school, get a job, find someone to love, get married, have kids, raise the kids, and then die. Nobody questions that. What if you want to do something different?

  

  Aziz Ansari
  • Different
  • School
  • Job

• It is a spectacular example of Mughal architecture, blends Islamic, Hindu, and Persian styles.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Architecture
  • Islamic

• There isn’t anything noble about being superior to another person. True nobility is in being superior to the person you once were.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Person
  • Nobility
  • Superior

• It's a good thing that columnists don't make homosexuality their last taboo anymore. But I wish the columnists themselves would come out too.

  

  Michael Musto
  • Lasts
  • Homosexuality
  • Columnists