“Gay rights are human rights.”

—  Hillary Clinton

Quoted in The Week, 10 December 2011, p. 10
Secretary of State (2009–2013)

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Gay rights are human rights." by Hillary Clinton?
Hillary Clinton photo
Hillary Clinton 312
American politician, senator, Secretary of State, First Lady 1947

Related quotes

Urvashi Vaid photo

“The gay rights movement is not a party. It is not a lifestyle. It is not a hair style. It is not a fad or a fringe or a sickness. It is not about sin or salvation. The gay rights movement is an integral part of the American promise of freedom.”

Urvashi Vaid (1958) Indian writer

At the March on Washington, 4/25/93

Joseph Massad photo

“Like the major US- and European-based human rights organisations (Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International) and following the line taken up by white western women's organisations and publications, the Gay International was to reserve a special place for the Muslim countries in its discourse as well as its advocacy. The orientalist impulse … continues to guide all branches of the human rights community.”

Joseph Massad (1963) Associate Professor of Arab Studies

Ibid., p. 161.
Desiring Arabs

Rudy Giuliani photo

“I’m pro-choice. I’m pro-gay rights.”

Rudy Giuliani (1944–2001) American businessperson and politician, former mayor of New York City

As quoted on CNN's Inside Politics (2 December 1999)

Margaret Cho photo

“What is deeply distressing is the incredible number of people who are vehemently opposed to equality, and the need for them to deny gay rights simply because they cannot bear the thought of gays having rights.”

Margaret Cho (1968) American stand-up comedian

From Her Books, I Have Chosen To Stay And Fight, RACISM AND CIVIL RIGHTS

Anita Bryant photo

“If gays are granted rights, next we'll have to give rights to prostitutes and to people who sleep with St. Bernards and to nailbiters.”

Anita Bryant (1940) American singer

Parting Glances: Oranges & lemons sliced http://www.pridesource.com/article.shtml?article=17348 (February 2, 2006).

Coretta Scott King photo

“For many years now, I have been an outspoken supporter of civil and human rights for gay and lesbian people. Gays and lesbians stood up for civil rights in Montgomery, Selma, in Albany, Ga. and St. Augustine, Fla., and many other campaigns of the Civil Rights Movement. Many of these courageous men and women were fighting for my freedom at a time when they could find few voices for their own, and I salute their contributions”

Coretta Scott King (1927–2006) American author, activist, and civil rights leader. Wife of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Chicago Tribune (1 April 1998)

“Civil Rights are Human Rights and human rights are Environmental Rights… NOW IS THE TIME TO ACT.”

Jerome Foster II (2002)

FOSTER II: THE NEXT GENERATION LEADING THE WAY https://www.lcv.org/article/jerome-foster-ii-next-generation-leading-way/JEROME authored by League of Conservation Voters.

“What blocks gay equality is prejudice. What fuels the movement for gay equality is the conviction that this prejudice is not constitutionally protected, but that the individual rights of homosexual Americans are.”

Michael Nava (1954) American writer

Source: Non-fiction, Created equal: Why gay rights matter to America (1994), p.6

Kinky Friedman photo

“I support gay marriage. I believe they have a right to be as miserable as the rest of us.”

Kinky Friedman (1944) Singer, songwriter, novelist, humorist, politician
Malcolm X photo

“Human rights are something you were born with. Human rights are your God-given rights. Human rights are the rights that are recognized by all nations of this earth. And any time any one violates your human rights, you can take them to the world court.”

Malcolm X (1925–1965) American human rights activist

The Ballot or the Bullet (1964), Speech in Cleveland, Ohio (April 3, 1964)
Context: When you expand the civil-rights struggle to the level of human rights, you can then take the case of the black man in this country before the nations in the UN. You can take it before the General Assembly. You can take Uncle Sam before a world court. But the only level you can do it on is the level of human rights. Civil rights keeps you under his restrictions, under his jurisdiction. Civil rights keeps you in his pocket. Civil rights means you’re asking Uncle Sam to treat you right. Human rights are something you were born with. Human rights are your God-given rights. Human rights are the rights that are recognized by all nations of this earth. And any time any one violates your human rights, you can take them to the world court.

Related topics