LGBT movements in the United States comprise an interwoven history of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender social and political movements in the United States of America, beginning in the early 20th century. They have been influential worldwide in achieving social progress for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and transsexual people.
Read more about LGBT Movements In The United States: Daughters of Bilitis, Mattachine Society, ONE, Incorporated, Student Rights Movements, Gay Liberation Fronts, Queer Nation, Identity Politics, History of The Movement in The United States, Opposition Throughout Movements History, 1920s, Mid-twentieth Century Advocacy, Militancy in 1960s San Francisco, Transgender Activism, The 1980s and The Emergence of The FTM Community, GenderPAC, LGBT Rights and The Supreme Court, LGBT Rights and State Courts
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“To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client; still, one must make the best of the case, for the purposes of Providence.”
—John Updike (b. 1932)
“The veto is a President’s Constitutional right, given to him by the drafters of the Constitution because they wanted it as a check against irresponsible Congressional action. The veto forces Congress to take another look at legislation that has been passed. I think this is a responsible tool for a president of the United States, and I have sought to use it responsibly.”
—Gerald R. Ford (b. 1913)
“In a universe that is all gradations of matter, from gross to fine to finer, so that we end up with everything we are composed of in a lattice, a grid, a mesh, a mist, where particles or movements so small we cannot observe them are held in a strict and accurate web, that is nevertheless nonexistent to the eyes we use for ordinary living—in this system of fine and finer, where then is the substance of a thought?”
—Doris Lessing (b. 1919)
“The popular colleges of the United States are turning out more educated people with less originality and fewer geniuses than any other country.”
—Caroline Nichols Churchill (1833–?)
“I would like to be the first ambassador to the United States from the United States.”
—Barbara Mikulski (b. 1936)