Cleve Jones Quotes
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I was bullied pretty badly especially in middle school. High school was not as bad as middle school, but I was not a macho kid at all. And the kids saw me as different from a very, very early age.
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A movement that seeks to advance only its own members is going to accomplish little
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This is a terrible time to be young, I think. It's really hard.
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I think support of the straight community is very important and I think there has been a profound shift in public opinion seen reflected in many ways. We do not need straight people to speak for us but we do want straight people to stand with us.
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I don't have any hobbies! I don't golf, I can't imagine what I would do if I retired other than get fat.
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If I had to say what my one greatest achievement is, it's that I lasted, and I'm still happy. I hope that comes through.
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The majority of new infections in America are among young gay and bisexual men of color, and the full resources that could be brought to bear simply are not.
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A whole lot of the way identity politics has gone seems to me to deny empathy.
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Any social movement that seeks to benefit only its own members I think is a shallow movement and probably doomed to failure.
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I recently heard young people talking about collective bargaining agreements - I hadn't heard young people use that phrase in forever!
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I do believe that non-violent civil disobedience is a very important and useful tactic.
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What people haven't quite grasped yet is that the rich are transforming cities all across the world.
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The penalties for homosexual conduct were - would vary from state to state, but they were - it was a felony in most states punishable with prison terms of varying lengths.
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I have no personal desire to get married whatsoever and I certainly have no desire to be a soldier. I'm old school, I'm from gay liberation, we wanted to end war forever and smash the patriarchy and these are values I still hold dear but, I believe that any person who wants to get married should have that right and I know that Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual people serve with distinction in the armed forces, and that when they are killed, supposedly serving our country in these wars, that I personally do not support, their partners back home do not receive death benefits.
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People who say that violence doesn't accomplish anything have not read history. I don't celebrate that reality, but there you have it.
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The whole function of cities has been transformed.
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Since the industrial revolution, cities, and especially the inner cities, were the places for the newly arrived. Voluntary immigrants seeking economic betterment, refugees, the bohemians, the artists - all of those people were crammed into densely populated neighborhoods and tenements. And as people climbed up the economic ladder they moved out, which really accelerated with the "white flight" phenomenon in the '60s and '70s.
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When I was saving pills to kill myself, I thought there was no hope. I thought my life was over because I was a homosexual.
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I am old school, I joined the gay liberation movement in 1972. If you had told me in 1972 that in the year 2009 I would be campaigning for the right to join the army or get married I think I would have started dating women at that time.
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Everybody will always find some way of diminishing your work, but it's all a lie!
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If we [gays] want to be equal under the law, we must now - as the great heroes of the Civil Rights movement of 1963 and 1964 showed us - turn our attention to the federal government.
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The subset of our population that has not benefited from the advancement of medication is black and brown people.
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I get to interact with a bunch of young people that are up against despair constantly.
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I go back to the parallels with 1963, 1964 when white America really became aware of the brutality of segregation, the cruelty of the apartheid system which existed in the south. Then white people began to get on the freedom buses and travel to the south and be part of the voter registration drives and they... some of them were beaten and some of them were murdered but they stood with the African-American community and the civil rights movement. It's time for straight people to do that today and it is time for gay people to insist that they do that today.
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I don't blame younger generations for their lack of awareness. Americans in general are not interested in history.
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I am not proud to be gay any more than I am proud to be right handed or to breathe oxygen.
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I believe we are entering into a period of political chaos. Out of that chaos is the potential for great evil, but there is also the possibility of great good.
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The joy with which we denigrate each others' efforts, I hate that.
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During those days when you're exhausted and during those days when you're frustrated, during those days when you're being attacked by your own people for doing what you think is right, remember you're part of a progression that goes back a long time of ordinary people who are doing their best to make it a better world.
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If you're gonna build units for the rich, you're gonna build units for the poor.
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