Gay Rights Movement

Famous quotes containing the words gay, rights and/or movement:

    “Kringelein: I’m going to live. I’m going to have a good time while I can.
    The Baron: That’s my motto, Kringelein. A short life and a gay one.”
    —William A. Drake (1900–1965)

    “The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.”
    —James Madison (1751–1836)

    “The parallel between antifeminism and race prejudice is striking. The same underlying motives appear to be at work, namely fear, jealousy, feelings of insecurity, fear of economic competition, guilt feelings, and the like. Many of the leaders of the feminist movement in the nineteenth-century United States clearly understood the similarity of the motives at work in antifeminism and race discrimination and associated themselves with the anti slavery movement.”
    —Ashley Montagu (b. 1905)