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.
I get called an adrenaline junkie every other minute, and I'm just fine with that.
I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers.
I am so proud of Pakistanis and specifically of our lawyers for speaking out and getting their heads bashed in for a better Pakistan.
I think it's good to be a little more fearless in saying what you feel. In not being scared of the repercussions of that.
In the current struggle, there is one positive course of action. There is no alternative, for the alternative would connote a rear march.
A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.
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