For the kids out there that are worried about what the future holds, especially the LGBTQI+ kids, our brothers and sisters that came before us didn't fight for nothing. Trust me: we will only move forward, but you need to put your fear aside and find the strength to believe that.
Interpretation
The quote encourages LGBTQI+ youth to be hopeful, reminding them of the struggles faced by those before them and emphasizing the importance of belief and strength.
Michelle Visage's quote speaks directly to LGBTQI+ youth who may feel anxious about their future. It acknowledges the struggles and sacrifices made by those in the past, reassuring young people that they are not alone and that there is strength in belief and community. It emphasizes the need to overcome fear and embrace hope, as the journey toward acceptance and progress continues with their courage and resilience.
In practice
This quote could be used during a motivational speech at a pride event.
To see queer people keeping each other down makes me so sad because I've been around for a long time - I've seen the people who came before us fight for what we have right now, and they did not fight like that for us to go backwards.
If in this supreme test, in face of which the braggart falls silent and every heroic gesture is paralyzed, a man walks straight up to the cause of his fear and is not deterred from doing that which is good -- which ultimately means for the sake of God, and therefore not from ambition or from fear of being taken for a coward -- this man, and he alone, is truly brave.
We've all lived through something horrific, but the strength and beauty and knowledge that we're going to win eventually is what keeps me going.
Loving the church also means having the courage to make difficult, trying choices, having ever before oneself the good of the church and not one's own.
Most people carry that pain around inside them their whole lives, until they kill the pain by other means, or until it kills them. But you, my friends, you found another way: a way to use the pain. To burn it as fuel, for light and warmth. You have learned to break the world that has tried to break you.
SEALs aren't the only heroes out there. Everyone who puts on a uniform meets that threshold.
If it's me against 48, I feel sorry for the 48.
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