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“If I turned around every time somebody called me a faggot, I'd be walking backward - and I don't want to walk backward.”

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Some people call me the unofficial mayor of Castro Street.

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“Let's make no mistake about this: The American Dream starts with the neighborhoods. If we wish to rebuild our cities, we must first rebuild our neighborhoods. And to do that, we must understand that the quality of life is more important than the standard of living. To sit on the front steps--whether it's a veranda in a small town or…

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We will not win our rights by staying quietly in our closets.

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If it were true that children mimicked their teachers, you'd sure have a helluva lot more nuns running around.

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Never take an elevator in city hall.

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Out of the bars and into the streets!

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Rights are won only by those who make their voices heard.

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We are coming out to tell the truths about gays, for I am tired of the conspiracy of silence, so I'm going to talk…

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The first gay people we elect must be strong. They must not be content to sit in the back of the bus. They must…

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Let me have my tax money go for my protection and not for my prosecution. Let my tax money go for the protection of me. Protect my home, protect my streets, protect my car, protect my life, protect my property...worry about becoming a human being and not about how you can prevent others from enjoying their lives because of your…

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I wish I had time to explain everything I did. Almost everything was done with an eye on the GLBT movement...last week I got…

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Freedom is too enormous to be slipped under a closet door.

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If you ask an introvert a question, wait until she thinks about it. Introverts think before speaking, not through speaking. If you want to…

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Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul will be consigned to eternal torment in the never-ending subterranean barbecue if you fail to follow the whacky edicts of one particular set of puckered dogwhistles or another. You may recall from the great movie Strange…

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Obviously, if you don't love life, you can't enjoy an oyster.

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If I don't have pressure, I don't function.

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If you restore a car, and you're making money, then you're doing it wrong.

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I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars, the houses - that's not the American dream. That's the booby prize, in the end. Those are the booby prizes. And if you fall for them - if, when you achieve them, you believe that this…

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If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are.

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If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding war, why we need to cut the military budget by 50%, why we need to bring back our troops scattered overseas, the police force of the world, in over a hundred countries, something like eight hundred…

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