"Women and gay people are the litmus test……" — Peter Tatchell
"Women and gay people are the litmus test of whether a society is democratic and respecting human rights. We are the canaries in the mine."
More Canaries Quotes
- You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to… — Henry Ward Beecher
- Because of her, he had learned to look for the birds - the darting flight of wild canaries (yellow sun… — Terry Kay
- A caged canary is safe but not free. — Walter E. Williams
- A caged canary is secure; but it is not free. It is easier for free men to resist terrorism from… — Chuck Baldwin
- You know it's time to start using mouthwash when your dentist leaves the room and sends in a canary. — Joan Rivers
- Will urban sprawl spread so far that most people lose all touch with nature? Will the day come when the… — Frank N. Ikard
- Social media is the ultimate canary in the coal mine — Jay Baer
- Israel is the canary in the mine. What happens to Israel will eventually happen to America itself. — David Horowitz
- And he supposed it might not be the best of days. But then, he was flying the mails and was… — Ernest K. Gann
- Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf. — Anton Chekhov
- Knowing without any doubt that the newly elected cannot help but be his zombies, Obama is the cat who swallowed… — Judi McLeod
- Perhaps poetry will be the canary in the mine-shaft warning us of what's to come. — Galway Kinnell