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

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

Marches work, rallies work, civil disobedience works, direct action works, voting works, writing letters works, speaking to churches and schools work…

- 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.

- 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 …

- 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…

- 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…

- Cleve Jones

A whole lot of the way identity politics has gone seems to me to deny empathy.

- Cleve Jones

A movement that seeks to advance only its own members is going to accomplish little

- Cleve Jones