Civil rights Quote by Masha Gessen

We have politicized the issue of Russia to a point that we can't have a sensible conversation about it.

— Fiona Hill

I think that if I would talk on a political subject, if I talk about it, it would divide the audience on that issue.…

— Billy Graham

We have the patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church talking about how gay marriage is a sign of the apocalypse, or Russian TV talking…

— Masha Gessen

I think people will have great conversations about religions, women's sexuality, gender issues and gay issues.

— Pam Grier

We need to have a more thoughtful, two-sided conversation about racial issues in this country.

— Megan Rapinoe

When you hear anyone policing the bodies of trans women, misgendering and othering us, and violently exiling us from spaces, you should not dismiss…

— Janet Mock

We don't discuss this issue [conversations with Russia] as a government, but we discuss the repercussions, which is more important because sometimes repercussions could…

— Bashar al-Assad

Thank you for your kind invitation. However, as a gay man, I must decline. I am deeply troubled by the current attitude toward and…

— Wentworth Miller

Russia, at the start of the 21st century, at least in its larger cities, very much resembled the United States of the early 1990s:…

— Masha Gessen

LGBT people are really convenient: we're sort of the ultimate foreign agent in Russia. There's no doubt in anyone's mind that the values that…

— Masha Gessen

I don't think it's a good thing to talk about women's issues being exactly the same as the issues of trans women because I…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I do think that people have a desire to talk about issues they may have wanted to avoid before. I've never had so many…

— Sasheer Zamata