I will not vote for a candidate who thinks you can 'pray away the gay,' I will not vote for a candidate who thinks that he has more rights to my uterus than I do, I will not vote for a candidate who thinks that it's okay to dump toxic waste in the ocean.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of voting for candidates who align with progressive values and social justice.
Sophia Bush's quote encourages individuals to be discerning voters, highlighting the critical issues surrounding LGBTQ+ rights, women's rights, and environmental protection. By stating what she will not support, she advocates for a political stance that prioritizes human rights and the health of the planet, suggesting that values should guide voting choices.
In practice
This quote can be used in a rally for LGBTQ+ rights to emphasize the need for supportive politicians.
Because sorry to say, women run the house. They run the family. They hold things up. I mean, it's like you don't ever see your mom get sick because she handles everything. And it's kind of amazing I think to show people just how strong women are.
When you use God as an excuse to hate people and you use God as an excuse to cut people down, first of all, I think it's insulting to God.
Battles are followed by years of famine.
I couldn't have imagined that I would live long enough to see Egypt emancipated from decades of repression.
What we need is a tough new kind of feminism with no illusions. Women do not change institutions simply by assimilating into them. We need a feminism that teaches a woman to say no - not just to the date rapist or overly insistent boyfriend but, when necessary, to the military or corporate hierarchy within which she finds herself. We need a kind of feminism that aims not just to assimilate into the institutions that men have created over the centuries, but to infiltrate and subvert them.
In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.
The rose is a rose from the time it is a seed to the time it dies. Within it, at all times, it contains its whole potential. It seems to be constantly in the process of change: Yet at each state, at each moment, it is perfectly all right as it is.
We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. The situation that we hoped to change because it was intolerable becomes unimportant. We have not managed to surmount the obstacle, as we were absolutely determined to do, but life has taken us round it, led us past it, and then if we turn round to gaze at the remote past, we can barely catch sight of it, so imperceptible has it become.
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