Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of fully embracing one's identity as a means to combat oppression.
Jane Rule's quote suggests that openly acknowledging and expressing one's true self, especially in the context of marginalized identities, serves as a powerful political act against oppression. The act of coming out is not just a personal journey but a collective struggle, advocating for rights and recognition in a society that may seek to silence or oppress those who differ from the norm.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech advocating for LGBTQ+ rights.
It's not the length but the quality of life that matters to me. It has always been important to me to write one sentence at a time, to live every day as if it were my last and judge it in those terms, often badly, not because it lacked grand gesture or grand passion but because it failed in the daily virtues of self-discipline, kindness, and laughter. It is love, very ordinary, human love, and not fear, which is the good teacher and the wisest judge.
I didn't want to be a boy, ever, but I was outraged that his height and intelligence were graces for him and gaucheries for me.
I've never been resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't sew, I could think.
Where you see wrong or inequality or injustice, speak out, because this is your country. This is your democracy. Make it. Protect it. Pass it on.
Sometimes, we feel like we don't want to offend people, but there are times that we need to express ourselves without fear that somebody is going to shut us down simply because we have differing opinions. That's how we grow.
There is only one reason for an individual to side-step to the useless side : the fear of a defeat on the useful side.
It is something that is called MDS. It is a rare blood disorder that affects the bone marrow. I'm going to beat this. My doctors say it and my faith says it.
Only Spartan women give birth to real men.
I've told the kids in the ghettos that violence won't solve their problems, but then they ask me, and rightly so; "Why does the government use massive doses of violence to bring about the change it wants in the world?" After this I knew that I could no longer speak against the violence in the ghettos without also speaking against the violence of my government.
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