Lynne Truss Quotes

We are a nation of minorities. In a nation of minorities, you can’t cherry-pick rights.

People have the right to live as equal citizens under the law. They do not have the right to demand that their identities be coddled and celebrated lest they might otherwise get offended.

It doesn't matter what the colour of your skin is, your sexual preference, the region where you were born, your gender. We're all equal... We can't take certain minorities and think they have super powers and are different from the others.

They always try to make it like jocks discriminate against gay people. I've been a big proponent of gay marriage for a long time, because as a black person, I can't be in for any form of discrimination at all.

Like being a woman, like being a racial religious tribal or ethnic minority, being LGBT does not make you less human. And that is why gay rights are human rights and human rights are gay rights.

God knows, as a minority, gay people have taken serious lumps for their sexual preferences. As has every minority.

What's great about it is that you see, the great struggle for gay people is that the politics is just not going to work for us.

The pursuit of otherness, the sense that we are somehow different than our brothers and sisters, no matter where we find them, allows for all the other great evils: racism, sexism, homophobia, violence against gay people and against women.

Obviously I'm in favor of protecting the rights of everybody: gay, black, women, what have you, American Indians.

You have to take your hat off to the homosexual and gay community cause right now they're as strong as black people USE to be when it comes to their rights.

Being a black woman, I've often felt I've been judged by my sex and my race, and I have always known that it shouldn't hamper me.

[Button] If Gay and Lesbian people are given civil rights, soon everyone will want them

Marches alone won't bring integration when human respect is disintegratin'

I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.

I believe in, and will to the best of my ability fight for, equal rights and freedom of opinion for everyone, regardless of colour, religion, nationality, orientation - you know the rest.

Too small is our world to allow discrimination, bigotry and intolerance to thrive in any corner of it, let alone in the United States of America.

It doesn't matter what color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, etc., everyone should have the same freedoms and liberties.

There should be no discrimination against languages people speak, skin color, or religion.

The fact that women are very young in obtaining their civil rights and African-Americans are young in obtaining their civil rights, I think it's about time that we extend that to all Americans, whether straight, gay, purple, green, black, brown.

All I know for sure is that issues like race, like class, are always best approached with compassion and open-mindedness.

I'm not in favor of any discrimination of any form.

Everybody thinks that equality comes from identifying people, and that's not where equality comes from.

It became clear to me in an instant that living a gay life without publicly acknowledging it is simply not enough to make any significant contribution to the immense work that lies ahead on the road to complete equality.

Majorities and minorities cannot rightfully be taken at all into account in deciding questions of justice.

No one should be discriminated against because of their sexual orientation.