Jacky Rosen Quotes
Only if we stand together as one voice, can we ensure that the message is sent and that hate will not be tolerated no matter where it lives in our society.
Rosen, Jacky. Press release. Office of U.S. Congresswoman Jacky Rosen, 2017.
Dyer was the 32nd and current mayor of Orlando, Florida, first elected in 2003, when he gave this interview to his Alma Mater magazine. Orlando had a few months earlier been the scene of the worst mass shooting in the history of the United States when one terrorist killer attacked a popular nightclub.
This quotation is one of the inscriptions at the Robert F. Kennedy gravesite in Arlington National Cemetery.
In Egypt and other Arab nations religion is the major source of intolerance. Many Muslims are intolerant of the existence and practice of any other religion. (Unlike in other Islamic nations like Turkey or Indonesia). The Sunni Muslims are at odds with the Shiites. Within those the ultra orthodox fight the more secular Muslims.
While the American people at that time generally were familiar with homosexual issues, few know much about transgender people who were generally quite discreet and had not been militant. They were politically and media wise, almost invisible. Hence the statement was very meaningful and appreciated coming from a high government official. North Carolina passed a state law making it illegal for any person to use a public bathroom reserved for a gender different from what appeared on their birth certificate, regardless of what the city, county or local community had been doing or wanted to do. Transgender men who dressed, looked, acted, and lived as men, under the law would have to use the women's toilet, which could in many situations would cause them to be attacked by others perceiving that man was attempting to use the women's rest rooms.
Jacklyn Sheryl Rosen is an American politician and computer programmer serving as the junior United States Senator from Nevada since 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, she was the U.S. Representative for Nevada's 3rd congressional district from 2017 to 2019.