I go back to the parallels with 1963, 1964 when white America really became aware of the brutality of segregation, the cruelty of the apartheid system which existed in the south. Then white people began to get on the freedom buses and travel to the south and be part of the voter registration drives and they... some of them were beaten and some of them were murdered but they stood with the African-American community and the civil rights movement. It's time for straight people to do that today and it is time for gay people to insist that they do that today.
If I had to say what my one greatest achievement is, it's that I lasted, and I'm still happy. I hope that comes through. - Cleve Jones
If I had to say what my one greatest achievement is, it's that I lasted, and I'm still happy. I hope that comes through.
- Cleve Jones
Marches work, rallies work, civil disobedience works, direct action works, voting works, writing letters works, speaking to churches and schools work… - Cleve Jones
Marches work, rallies work, civil disobedience works, direct action works, voting works, writing letters works, speaking to churches and schools work…
I don't even want to go to the Pride marches anymore. The politics have been removed almost entirely. They're just huge corporate showcases. - Cleve Jones
I don't even want to go to the Pride marches anymore. The politics have been removed almost entirely. They're just huge corporate showcases.
Even today every year we lose an awful lot of young people, teenagers, who take their own lives because they're - they are gay or transgender. - Cleve Jones
Even today every year we lose an awful lot of young people, teenagers, who take their own lives because they're - they are gay or transgender.
I think that a big part of the energy that was going into fighting AIDS was reduced when we saw that more of the new infections were among our black … - Cleve Jones
I think that a big part of the energy that was going into fighting AIDS was reduced when we saw that more of the new infections were among our black …
If you tell me I can't understand you because of my color or you can't understand me because of your sexual orientation or she can't understand us be… - Cleve Jones
If you tell me I can't understand you because of my color or you can't understand me because of your sexual orientation or she can't understand us be…
I believe we are entering into a period of political chaos. Out of that chaos is the potential for great evil, but there is also the possibility of g… - Cleve Jones
I believe we are entering into a period of political chaos. Out of that chaos is the potential for great evil, but there is also the possibility of g…
A whole lot of the way identity politics has gone seems to me to deny empathy. - Cleve Jones
A whole lot of the way identity politics has gone seems to me to deny empathy.
A movement that seeks to advance only its own members is going to accomplish little - Cleve Jones
A movement that seeks to advance only its own members is going to accomplish little
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