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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“The United States have a coffle of four millions of slaves. They are determined to keep them in this condition; and Massachusetts is one of the confederated overseers to prevent their escape.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Justice begins with the recognition of the necessity of sharing. The oldest law is that which regulates it, and this is still the most important law today and, as such, has remained the basic concern of all movements which have at heart the community of human activities and of human existence in general.”
—Elias Canetti (b. 1905)
“The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and she is it, it is she who is the mother of the twentieth century civilization. She began to feel herself as it just after the Civil War. And so it is a country the right age to have been born in and the wrong age to live in.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.”
—Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933)