Herb Ritts Quotes

I've always been a big supporter of equal rights and encouraging people to be who they are.

Equality implies individuality.

Let each person have a chance to be who he or she wants to be. Only then can we be considered a truly liberated nation.

Everyone's an individual and individuality is such a strong thing in our society so that translates into wrestling.

And I'm not even just talking artists, every single person in this nation has the right to be themselves, live life go team go. I love you Canada, thank you so much.

You don't have to be the same as anybody else, but you can support - just concerning human rights in general.

I must be allowed to be as I am.

All I want to be is human and American and have all the same rights and I will shut up.

I wish we lived in a society that made it safe and provided the courage for everyone to come out.

I've lived my whole life exactly the way I've wanted to. Being gay, being white, being male, it doesn't matter to me. They're all things I'm born with.

The individual is greater than the state.

Self-determination, the autonomy of the individual, asserts itself in the right to race his automobile, to handle his power tools, to buy a gun, to communicate to mass audiences his opinion, no matter how ignorant, how aggressive, it may be.

Feminism... I think the simplest explanation, and one that captures the idea, is a song that Marlo Thomas sang, 'Free to be You and Me.'

I want to show the world that if you want to be a bearded lady you are allowed to do it without being discriminated against.

I get to decide how my body shows up in any space. When I'm walking into a place like the Globes, I want to make it very clear that how I show up is to further the freedom of everybody.

I believe everyone should be equal, and we should all love and support each other and express ourselves the way we want to express ourselves and be whoever we want. That's my motto.

As a human being, I do feel like it's my right to be able to stand up for and speak on whatever I want.

Sexual orientation, color, background - that's what I want people to take away: Anyone can be anything.

Self-expression should not be a challenge that demands extraordinary talent but should be a right accessible to all.

I have often asked Americans wherein they consider their freedom superior to that of the English, but have never found them able to indicate a single point in which the individual is worse off in England as regards his private civil rights or his general liberty of doing and thinking as he pleases. They generally turn the discussion to social equality, the existence of a monarchy and hereditary titles and so forth - matters which are, of course, quite different from freedom in its proper sense.

You call yourself what you want to call yourself. This is the land of the free.

Be true. Be beautiful. Be free. In the midst of segregation and racism Mamma raised us to be independent and free. We saw ourselves as citizens of the world, not of a block.

A fair and just society offers equality of opportunity to all. But it cannot promise, and should not try to enforce, sameness.

We are all the same and we all want the same things: the right to be happy, to be just who we want to be and to love who we want to love.