The Truth Is Out There

These are the words I live by (as opposed to girl, you keep talkin’ but, you ain’t sayin’ nothin’)

 

I hope my achievements in life shall be these – that I will have fought for what was right and fair, that I will have risked for that which mattered, that I have given help to those who were in need…that I will have left the earth a better placed for what I’ve done and who I’ve been.. – C. Hoppe

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I am worthy. I am worthy of my life and all the good that is in it. I am worthy of my friends and their friendships. I am worthy of spacious skies, amber waves of grain and purple mountain majesties above the fruited plain. (I am worthy, too, of the fruited plain.) I am worthy of a degree of happiness that could only be referred to as “sinful” in less unlighted times. I am worthy of creativity, sensitivity and appreciation. I am worthy of peace of mind, peace on Earth, peace in the valley and a piece of the action. I am worthy of God’s presence in my life. I am worthy of my love.

 

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In Germany they first came for the Communist and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me – and by that time there no was left to speak up. – Pastor Martin Mienoller

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Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions. – Albert Einstein

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Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.
- Dr. Seuss

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Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, martini in the other, body throughly used up, totally worn out, and screaming, “WHOO HOO, what a ride!”

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BECAUSE gay men and lesbians are discriminated against in housing and employment
AND because how we act is more important than who we are
AND if we get harassed it’s our problem
AND if we get attacked we provoked it
AND if we raise our voices we’re flaunting ourselves
AND if we enjoy sex we’re perverts
AND if we have Aids we deserve it
AND if we march with pride we’re recruiting children
AND if we want or have children we’re unfit parents
AND if we stand up for our rights we’re overstepping our boundaries
AND because we are forced constantly to question our own worth as human beings
AND if we don’t have a relationship with someone of the opposite sex we haven’t given it a chance
AND if we have a relationship with someone of the same sex it is not recognized
AND we are told our love is not “real”
AND if we come out of the closet we’re just going through a phase
AND because lesbian and gay history is virtually absent from literature
AND because homophobia is sanctioned by the supreme court
AND … for lots and lots of other reasons,
I AM PART OF THE LESBIAN & GAY CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT. – Dan Kaufman