Gay Rights

Famous quotes containing the words gay and/or rights:

“Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise.
For envy is a kind of praise.”
—John Gay (1685–1732)

“Human beings have rights, because they are moral beings: the rights of all men grow out of their moral nature; and as all men have the same moral nature, they have essentially the same rights. These rights may be wrested from the slave, but they cannot be alienated: his title to himself is as perfect now, as is that of Lyman Beecher: it is stamped on his moral being, and is, like it, imperishable.”
—Angelina Grimké (1805–1879)