Activist Quote by Kevin Sessums Download Open image “I wasn't a [gay] activist, really.” — Kevin Sessums ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Activist Gay Gay Activist
I was never an activist, in the sense that I didn't really join a lot of organizations. I wasn't out in the streets. But… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
I've been a very effective leader in the gay rights movement, though at times I've been controversial. — Jean O'Leary Copy Share Image
I'm a gay rights supporter. I'm a human-rights campaign initiative person. — Anthony Scaramucci Copy Share Image
My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
[Calvin Trilllin] is not writing about things that I can criticize. I can call these other people out for what I think they are… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
I get rejections from the New Yorker. When I had to give a little talk to the people graduating from the MBA program at… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
[Larry Kramer] thinks Charles de Gaulle was gay. He thinks Max Schmeling was gay. — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
I was raped. That was a hard thing to write about. I never owned that part of it. Guys don't look at themselves as… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
Sometimes if I am walking down the street and thinking about my panoply of God, Ganesha, Parvati [Ganesha's mother], I say "Lucifer," because he… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
To some people, knowledge and science are everything. To me, God is everything I don't know. — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
I was not "shoe." That's a misuse of the term "shoe," which is derived from "white shoe." — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
My father always wanted me to be president of the United States, and his fallback position was that I not become a ward of… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
I just so desperately wanted to be published in New Yorker, and I'd so desperately try to get something in it. But I'd always… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
We didn't know each other [with Larry Kramer at Yale], but we had a lot of mutual friends. — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
David Remnick [the New Yorker's editor in chief]is about as interested in anything gay as I am interested in anything to do with baseball.… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
I believe we really became friends [with Larry Kramer] when we bonded at our fifteenth class reunion in 1972. — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
“God has a way of picking a “nobody” and turning their world upside down, in order to create a “somebody” that will remove the… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Social media is not just another way to connect feminist and activist voices - it amplifies our messages as well. — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
We must always refill and ensure there is a critical mass of leaders and activists committed to nonviolence and racial and economic justice who… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
When we criticize in Iran the actions of the government, the fundamentalists say that we and the Bush Administration are in the same camp.… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
Because my graduate academic training at law school was not one that included most of the intellectual traditions I find useful for understanding the… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
I've been an activist in the LGBT community for a long time. I think nothing's changed, I'm just a little bit more focused on… — Chaz Bono Copy Share Image
I think that compared to other politicians who have been put in jail in the past, compared to the human-rights activists in history who… — Joshua Wong Copy Share Image
Some kinds of activists are more willing to try stuff out, see if works and think on their feet, but some of the people… — Duncan Green Copy Share Image
Black gay activists should try to build coalitions of people for the elimination of all injustice. — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
You do what you know is good, because it's good, and then you have a certain peace of mind, saying, you've been an activist… — Ray McGovern Copy Share Image
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