Abraham Quote by David Herbert Donald

Abraham Lincoln is resolute, honest, has the best interest of the nation at heart, and he's as ugly as homemade Sunday sin, so he…

— Bill Oberst Jr

I think also there's no question that Lincoln has been diluted down through history in some way, almost by becoming as iconic as he…

— James Spader

“It was my conclusion that any people who were oppressed, particularly gay people like myself, could not depend upon others to be our heroes.…

— Troy D. Perry

George Washington and Abraham Lincoln were gay, just for starters. They didn't have a name for it, but their primary affections and intellectual attractions…

— Larry Kramer

But having said all of that, that still doesn't account for a lot of the increase in popularity which stems, I think, from Lincoln's…

— David Herbert Donald

I think there were two great gay Americans obviously, and that was Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman.

— Andrew Sullivan

Few writers in history have ever been 'politically correct' (a notion that rapidly changes in any case), and there's no reason to imagine that…

— Edmund White

For me, Lincoln is like just a handful of people - a Gandhi, or a Picasso, or a Martin Luther King Jr. - who…

— Barack Obama

I don't want to feel like I have to be a poster child for anything other than being a great artist. I don't take…

— Darren Hayes

There's always going to be a need for activism; there's always going to be a need for you and me doing the right thing,…

— Henry Rollins

He (son Jason) doesn't see me as a (gay) icon, he sees me as his mother who touches his hair too much. No, I…

— Barbra Streisand

Abraham Lincoln is singular. Abraham Lincoln, before he was killed, stood up and, you know, for the first time from any sitting president, stood…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates